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 (booknews.com)
Adel T. Adamova (translated by J. M. Rogers), The Iconography of A Camel
Fight
Nurhan Atasoy, Ottoman Garden Pavilions and Tents
Serpil Bac, Old Images for New Texts and Contexts: Wandering Images In
Islamic Book Painting
Kaveh Bakhtiar, Palatial Towers of Nasir Al-Din Shah
Doris Behrens-Abouseif, European Arts and Crafts at the Mamluk Court
Michele Bernardini, The Illustrations of a Manuscript of the Travel Account
of Franēois de la Boullaye le Gouz in the Library of the Accademia Nazionale
dei Lincei in Rome
John Carswell and Julian Henderson, Rhyton? Write On ...
Pedro Moura Carvalho, What Happened to the Mughal Furniture? The Role of the
Imperial Workshops, the Decorative Motifs Used, and the Influence of Western
Models
Anna Contadini, A Wonderful World: Folios from a Dispersed Manuscript of the
Nuzhat-Nma
Yolande Crowe, A Late Safavid Dish: A Cluster of Exotic Trees and Foliage
Giovanni Curatola, A Sixteenth-Century Quarrel about Carpets
Ibolya Gerelyes, Seeking the East in the West: The Zsolnay Phenomenon
Rosalind A. Wade Haddon, Two Ceramic Pieces from the Asian Art Museum of San
Francisco
Robert Irwin, Futuwwa: Chivalry and Gangsterism in Medieval Cairo
A. A. Ivanov (translated by J. M. Rogers), A Second Herat Bucket and its
Congeners
Jeremy Johns and Nadia Jamil, Signs of the Times: Arabic Signatures as a
Measure of Acculturation in Norman Sicily
Manuel Keene, Old World Jades outside China, from Ancient Times to the
Fifteenth Century: Section One
Nasser D. Khalili, A Recently Acquired Incense Burner in the Khalili
Collection
G. R. D. King, The Paintings of the Pre-Islamic Kaba
Mark Kramarovsky, The Sky Of Wine of Abu Nuwas and Three Glazed Bowls from
the Golden Horde, Crimea
Jens Kröger, On Mahmud b. Ishaq al-Shihabis Manuscript of Yüsuf va Zulaykh
of 964 (1557)
Boris I. Marshak, An Early Seljuq Silver Bottle from Siberia
Alison Ohta, Filigree Bindings of the Mamluk Period
Bernard OKane, Chaghatai Architecture and the Tomb of Tughluq Temr at
Almaliq
Julian Raby, Nur Al-Din, the Qastal al-Shuaybiyya, and the Classical
Revival
Günsel Renda, Sindbdnma An Early Ottoman Illustrated Manuscript Unique in
Iconography and Style
Tim Stanley, The Books of Umur Bey
Zeren Tanindi, Bibliophile Aghas (Eunuchs) at Topkap Saray
Rachel Ward, The Inscription on the Astrolabe by Abd al-Karim in the British
Museum
Owen Wright, The Sight of Sound
Filiz Yeniehiriolu, Ottoman Ceramics in European Contexts
