num_pages: 384
description: Rogers, who was curator of Islamic art at the British Museum, taught at the U. of London, and curates the Nasser D Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, is honored in this volume of 31 essays on Islamic art and architecture. Among the topics are the iconography of a camel fight, European arts and crafts at the Mamluk court, folios from the Nuzhat-nama, a second Herat bucket, Arabic signatures in Norman Sicily, paintings of the pre-Islamic Ka'ba, and the classical revival of Nur al-Din's Qastal al-Shu'aybiyya. Other chapters consider Mamluk bookbinding, Chaghatai architecture, Ottoman ceramics in Europe, and the bibliophile aghas at Topkapi Saray. The contributors are art historians and curators in the Turkey, Kuwait, Russia, Egypt, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, the UK, and the US. The volume is heavily illustrated with good quality color plates. It is not indexed. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
language: English
title: Muqarnas, Volume 21: Essays In Honor Of J.M. Rogers
titlecomplete: Muqarnas, Volume 21: Essays In Honor Of J.M. Rogers
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Brill