Author: Neccipoglu, Gülru. (ed.).
Title: Muqarnas. An annual on the visual cultures of the islamic world. Vol. 39.
Description: Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2022. [V],331 pp. Num. col. & b./w. ills. Orig. hardcover (blind stamped red cloth with gilt lettering). 8vo. [ISBN: 978-90-04-53330-1]. - As new.Muqarnas 39 offers a rich panoply of studies extending across the breadth of the Muslim realm-from Andalusia to India-and across a millennium of years. The volume’s topics range from the material artifacts of textiles, pen boxes, fourteenth-century manuscripts, Ottoman Treasury valuables, a nineteenth-century Ottoman coin collection, Classical marble frieze slabs, royal palanquins, and sphero-conical vessels to Orientalist internalization, mosque and city architecture-the construction even of an entire city-and the archaeological, museological, legal, and sociological analysis of such. Luxuriously illustrated and thoroughly researched, each of the twelve articles presents a visual and engaging unpacking of an aspect of Islamicate culture that will introduce its reader to new and fascinating insights. - Publisher's retail price: € 64.31

Keywords: Asian art Islamatic art Aziatische kunst Islamitische kunst