Oleg Grabar, 'Michael Meinecke and His Last Book.' Thomas Leisten, 'Mashhad al-Nasr: Monuments of War and Victory in Medieval Islamic Art.' Jere L. Bacharach, 'Marwanid Umayyad Building Activities: Speculations on Patronage.' Nuha N.N. Khoury, 'The Meaning of the Great Mosque of Cordoba in the Tenth Century.' Nasser Rabbat, 'Al-Azhar Mosque: An Architectural Chronicle of Cairo's History.' Howyda N. Al-Harithy, 'The Complex of Sultan Hasan in Cairo: Reading between the Lines.' Michael Cooperson, 'Baghdad in Rhetoric and Narrative.' Aptullah Kuran, 'A Spatial Study of Three Ottoman Capitals:...

Note to Contributors: Muqamas 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 15-20 illustrations (both graphics and black-and-white glossy photographs; colour prints or slides are not acceptable). Exceptions can be made for articles dealing with unpublished visual or textual primary sources, but if they are...

Eva Baer, The Illustrations for an Early Manuscript of Ibn Butlan's "Da'wat al-A?ibb?' in the L.A. Mayer Memorial in Jerusalem
Anthony Welch, Hussein Keshani, and Alexandra Bain, Epigraphs, Scripture, and Architecture in the Early Sultanate of Delhi
David J. Roxburgh, Persian Drawing, ca. 1400-1450: Materials and Creative Procedures
R.D. McChesney, Architecture and Narrative: The Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa Shrine. Part 2: Representing the Complex in Word and Image, 1696-1998
Machiel Kiel, The Quatrefoil Plan in Ottoman Architecture Reconsidered in the Light of the "Fethiye Mosque" of...

Muqarnas, the well-respected annual of Islamic art and architecture, is sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard U. and MIT. The 20th volume features 12 articles on topics that include geometry in a 9th-century Koran, the defense of alchemy in a Mongol era manuscript, t

Migrations et relations familiales, par K. Meziou, professeur emerite, de l'Universite de Carthage: Le " conflit de civilisations " vehicule une vision globalisante et figee du monde musulman et occulte les changements qui ont touche, a des degres divers, le droit de la famille en particulier au Maghreb. Le theme, revisite a travers les relations familiales dans le contexte migratoire euro-maghrebin, doit etre depasse. La focalisation sur les droits fondamentaux permet de relativiser les oppositions, alors que les solutions retenues dans les pays occidentaux ne procedent pas toujours du...

Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.