Reflections on the study of Islamic art / Oleg Grabar -- The mosque of al-Hākim in Cairo / Jonathan M. Bloom -- The cult of ʻAlid saints in the Fatimid monuments of Cairo. Part I, the mosque of al-Aqmar / Caroline Williams -- Christian themes in thirteenth-century Islamic metalwork / Ranee A. Katzenstein and Glenn D. Lowry -- The octagonal pavilion at Natanz / Sheila S. Blair -- The resilience of the Friday mosque : the case of Herat / Lisa Golombek -- Dating Ottoman Turkish works in the Saz style / Walter B. Denny --The Tughluqs, master builders of the Delhi sultanate / Anthony Welch and Howard Crane -- Four Mughal caravanserais built during the reigns of Jahāngir and Shāh Jahān / Wayne E. Begley -- Type and variation : Berber collective dwellings of the northwestern Sahara / William J.R. Curtis
The Renaissance of Islam, The Art of the Mamluks: Selected papers from a symposium sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art; Freer Gallery of Art; Smithsonian Institution; and held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 13-16, 1981. -- T.p. verso
Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sponsered by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
