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Author:   Gulru Necipoglu ,  Karen Leal ,  Olga Bush ,  Avinoam Shalem
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   32
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 27.00cm
Weight:   1.249kg
ISBN:  

9789004298989

ISBN 10:   9004298983
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   21 October 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Muqarnas 32 Gazing Otherwise: Modalities of Seeing In and Beyond the Lands of Islam Guest Editors: Olga Bush and Avinoam Shalem Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Avinoam Shalem, Amazement: The Suspended Moment of the Gaze Olga Bush, Prosopopeia: Performing the Reciprocal Gaze Conference Essays Gulru Necipoglu, The Scrutinizing Gaze in the Aesthetics of Islamic Visual Cultures: Sight, Insight, and Desire D. Fairchild Ruggles, Visible and Invisible Bodies: The Architectural Patronage of Shajar al-Durr Samer Akkach, The Eye of Reflection: Al-Nabulusi's Spatial Interpretation of Ibn ʿArabi's Tomb Olga Bush, Entangled Gazes: The Polysemy of the New Great Mosque Of Granada Emine Fetvaci, The Gaze in the Album of Ahmed I Matthew D. Saba, A Restricted Gaze: The Ornament of the Main Caliphal Palace of Samarra Avinoam Shalem, Experientia and Auctoritas: ʿAbd al-Latif al-Baghdadi's Kitab al-Ifada wa'l-iʿtibar and the Birth of the Critical Gaze Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Arabesques, Unicorns, and Invisible Masters: The Art Historian's Gaze as Symptomatic Action? Holly Edwards, Glancing Blows, Crossing Boundaries: From Local to Global in the Company of Afghan Women Laura U. Marks, The Taming of Haptic Space: From Malaga to Valencia to Florence

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Gulru Necipoglu, (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1986) is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She has been the editor of Muqarnas since 1993.

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