Muqarnas, Volume 16

Gülru Necipoğlu, (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.

• Rafi Grafman and Myriam Rosen-Ayalon, The Two Great Syrian Umayyad Mosques: Jerusalem and DamascusMariam Rosser-Owen, A Córdoban Ivory Pyxis Lid in the Ashmolean MuseumEva Baer, The Human Figure in Early Islamic Art: Some Preliminary RemarksÖmür Bakirer, The Story of Three GraffitiÇiğdem Kafescioğlu, "In the Image of Rum": Ottoman Architectural Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Aleppo and DamascusLeonid A. Beliaev and Alexei Chernetsov, The Eastern Contribution to Medieval Russian CultureWillem Floor, Art (Naqqashi) and Artists (Naqqashan) in Qajar PersiaMohammad Al-Asad, The Mosque of the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara: Breaking with TraditionHana Taragan, Architecture in Fact and Fiction: The Case of the New Gourna Village in Upper Egypt