MUQARNAS GÜLRU NEC~POG[ LU JULIA BAILEY AN ANNUAL ON THE VISUAL CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR VOLUME 23

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3 contents iii AN ANNUAL ON THE VISUAL CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD EDITOR GÜLRU NEC~POG[ LU MANAGING EDITOR JULIA BAILEY VOLUME 23 LEIDEN 2006

4 iv contents Sponsored by: The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts Editor: Gülru Necipoqlu Founding Editor: Oleg Grabar Managing Editor: Julia Bailey Consulting Editors: Peri Bearman András Riedlmayer Editorial Board: Ali Asani, William Graham, Wolfhart Heinrichs, Eva Hoffman, Cemal Kafadar, Roy Mottahedeh, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Nasser Rabbat, David Roxburgh, Wheeler Thackston, Heghnar Watenpaugh, Irene Winter Advisory Board: Catherine Asher, Marianne Barrucand, Ülkü Bates, Irene Bierman, Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan Bloom, Zeynep Çelik, Howard Crane, Giovanni Curatola, Walter Denny, Jerrilynn Dodds, Massumeh Farhad, Heinz Gaube, Lisa Golombek, Robert Hillenbrand, Renata Holod, Stephen Humphreys, Nuha Khoury, Machiel Kiel, Thomas Leisten, R. D. McChesney, Bernard O Kane, Scott Redford, J. Michael Rogers, Priscilla Soucek, Maria Subtelny, Anthony Welch Note to Contributors: Muqarnas will consider for publication articles on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary. Articles submitted for publication are subject to review by the editors and/or outside readers. Manuscripts should be no more than 40 double-spaced typed pages of text (not including endnotes) and have no more than illustrations. Exceptions can be made for articles dealing with unpublished visual or textual primary sources, but if they are particularly long, they may be divided into two or more parts for publication in successive volumes. Both text and endnotes should be double-spaced; endnotes should conform to the usage of the Chicago Manual of Style. Illustrations should be labeled and accompanied by a double-spaced caption list. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted illustrations and for supplying the proper credit-line information. For the transliteration of Arabic and Persian, Muqarnas uses the Encyclopaedia of Islam system, but with the omission of subscript bars and the substitution of q for _ and j for dj; for Ottoman Turkish, authors are given the choice of the EI system or modern Turkish orthography. All transliterated words and phrases in the text and transliterated author s names and titles in the endnotes must follow this system. Exceptions are proper nouns (names of persons, dynasties, and places) and Arabic words that have entered the English language and have generally recognized English forms (e.g., madrasa, iwan, mihrab, Abbasid, Muhammad); these should be anglicized and not italicized; placenames and names of historical personages with no English equivalent should be transliterated but, aside from {ayn and hamza, diacritical marks should be omitted (e.g., Maqrizi, Fustat, San{a). A detailed style sheet and further information can be obtained from the editorial office. Write to the Managing Editor, Aga Khan Program, Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA jbailey@fas.harvard.edu; fax: ISSN ISBN ISBN Copyright 2006 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher. printed in the netherlands

5 in memoriam margie v CONTENTS Doris Behrens-Abouseif, The Islamic History of the Lighthouse of Alexandria Stephennie Mulder, The Mausoleum of Imam al-shafi{i Anna Contadini, A Question in Arab Painting: The Ibn al-sufi Manuscript in Tehran and Its Art- Historical Connections Chad Kia, Is the Bearded Man Drowning? Picturing the Figurative in a Late-Fifteenth-Century Painting from Herat Maryam Ekhtiar, Practice Makes Perfect: The Art of Calligraphy Exercises (Siy h Mashq) in Iran 107 Abdolhamid Keshmirshekan, Discourses on Postrevolutionary Iranian Art: Neotraditionalism during the 1990s Willem Floor, The Woodworking Craft and Its Products in Iran Elizabeth Lambourn, Brick, Timber, and Stone: Building Materials and the Construction of Islamic Architectural History in Gujarat Hussein Keshani, Architecture and the Twelver Shi{i Tradition: The Great Imambara Complex of Lucknow I $ lknur Aktug[ Kolay and Serpi. l Çeli. k, Ottoman Stone Acquisition in the Mid-Sixteenth Century: The Süleymaniye Complex in Istanbul Vi. ldan Serdarog[ lu, When Literature and Architecture Meet: Architectural Images of the Beloved and the Lover in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Poetry Seli. n I $ pek, Ottoman Ravza-æ Mutahhara Covers Sent from Istanbul to Medina with the Surre Processions Marcus Milwright, So Despicable a Vessel: Representations of Tamerlane in Printed Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries