Muqarnas, an Annual on Visual, Material, and Architectural Cultures of the Islamic World: Fortieth Anniversary Volume

The fortieth-anniversary volume of Muqarnas begins with a preface by Gülru Necipoğlu, addressing the historical trajectory of this groundbreaking publication and its sister series, Muqarnas Supplements, against the backdrop of a changing scholarly landscape, particularly in the last decade. This is followed by twelve articles representative of the scope of scholarship published in Muqarnas over the years--from the reception of Chinese ceramics in early modern South Asia, and an analysis of Humayun’s tomb-garden in Mughal Delhi, to studies of the Samanid mausoleum in Bukhara, a lavish Abu’l-Khairid Shāhnāma, the Mevlevīḫāne of Salonica, the House of Paintings in the Alhambra, and the reordering of Galata and Pera’s urban space in nineteenth-century Istanbul. The volume concludes with a remembrance of Ronald Lewcock, the first Aga Khan Professor of Design for Islamic Societies at MIT, and a cumulative index of Muqarnas articles from 1983 through 2023.

Authors include Gülru Necipoğlu, Dilrabo Tosheva, Ariel Fein, Walid Akef, Denise-Marie Teece, James L. Wescoat Jr., Gulfishan Khan, Jaimee K. Comstock-Skipp, Zeren Tanındı, Cemal Kafadar, K. Mehmet Kentel, M. Baha Tanman, Martina Rugiadi, Abdullah Ghouchani+, Roshanak Keyghobadi, Viola Allegranzi, and C. Anjalendran.