Muqarnas
Subtitle: an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world
By: Sibel Bozdoǧan, Gülru Necipoğlu, editors ; Julia Bailey, managing editor
Contributors: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
ISBN-13: 9789047423324
Subjects: Subjects & Themes; Islamic art; Islamic architecture; ART; General
Other titles: Annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world; Brill e-books.
Notes: "Sponsored by: The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Entangled discourses: scrutinizing Orientalist and nationalist legacies in the architectural historiography of the "Lands of Rum" / Sibel Bozdoǧan and Gülru Necipoğlu; title: A Rome of one's own: reflections on cultural geography and identity in the Lands of Rum / Cemal Kafadar; title: An uneasy historiography: the legacy of Ottoman architecture in the former Arab provinces / Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh; title: Art history and the nation: Arthur Upham Pope and the discourse on "Persian art" in the early twentieth century / Kishwar Rizvi; title: Formalism and the academic foundation of Turkish art in the early twentieth century / Oya Pancaroǧlu; title: Lost in translation: architecture, taxonomy, and the eastern "Turks" / Finbarr Barry Flood; title: Architecture and the search for Ottoman origins in the Tanzimat Period / Ahmet Ersoy; title: Creation of a national genius: Sinan and the historiography of "Classical" Ottoman architecture / Gülru Necipoğlu; title: Westernization, decadence, and the Turkish Baroque: modern constructions of the eighteenth century / Shirine Hamadeh; title: Reading Ottoman architecture through modernist lenses: nationalist historiography and the "New Architecture" in the Early Republic / Sibel Bozdoǧan; title: "Our Anatolia": organicism and the making of humanist culture in Turkey / S.M. Can Bilsel; title: "What have you done for Anatolia today?" Islamic archaeology in the early years of the Turkish Republic / Scott Redford; title: Museums and narratives of display from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic / Wendy Shaw; title: The architectural heritage of Istanbul and the ideology of preservation / Nur Altinyildiz.