Muqarnas

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Muqarnas

Stephennie Mulder

Related Terms:

  • Mihrab (concave prayer niche)

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References:

Gámiz Gordo, Antonio and Ignacio Ferrer Pérez-Blanco. “A Grammar of Muqarnas: Drawings of the Alhambra by Jones and Goury (1834–1845),” VLC arquitectura 6/2 (October 2019): 57–87.

Garofalo, Vincenza. “A Methodology for Studying Muqarnas: The Extant Examples in Palermo,” Muqarnas 27 (2010): 357–406.

Ghazarian, Armen and Robert Ousterhout. “A Muqarnas Drawing from Thirteenth-century Armenia and the Use of Architectural Drawings during the Middle Ages,” Muqarnas 18 (2001): 141–154.

Kashef, Mohamad. “Bahri Mamluk Muqarnas Portals in Egypt: Survey and Analysis,” Frontiers of Architectural Research 6/4 (December 2017): 487–503.

Necipoğlu, Gülru. The Topkapı Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture. Los Angeles: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1995.

Tabbaa, Yasser. “The Muqarnas Dome: Its Origin and Meaning,” Muqarnas 3 (1985): 61–74.

Online Resources:

Bloom, Jonathan. “Muqarnas.” Aramco World (January/February 2022).

Muhammadi, Goli. “Heirloom Tech: The Math and Magic of Muqarnas,” Make (December 16, 2016), and “Heirloom Tech: The Old-World Acoustics of Ali Qapu,” Make (December 26, 2016).

Tabbaa, Yasser. “Muqarnas,” Grove Art Online (2010).

Takahashi, Shiro. Muqarnas: A Three-Dimensional Decoration of Islamic Architecture.

Citation:

Stephennie Mulder, “Muqarnas,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 7 November 2024.

Stephennie Mulder is Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a specialist in Islamic art, architectural history, and archaeology. Her book The Shrines of the ‘Alids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shi’s and the Architecture of Coexistence (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) received UT Austin’s Hamilton Award Grand Prize, the World Prize for Book of the Year from the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Syrian Studies Association book prize, and was listed as an ALA Choice magazine outstanding academic title. Other publications include an edited volume, Imagining Antiquity in Islamic Societies (Intellect, 2022), as well as academic articles on medieval and contemporary art and architectural history, Islamic archaeology, and cultural heritage, including in the Journal of Islamic Archaeology, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture, and The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology.