Muqarnas, Volume 22

Gülru 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.

• CONTENTSLUKE TREADWELL, “Mihrab and ʿAnaza” or “Sacrum and Spear”? A Reconsideration of an Early Marwanid Silver DrachmHANA TARAGAN, The “Speaking” Inkwell from Khurasan: Object as “World” in Iranian Medieval MetalworkYURY KAREV, Qarakhanid Wall Paintings in the Citadel of Samarqand: First Report and Preliminary ObservationsYVONNE DOLD-SAMPLONIUS AND SILVIA L. HARMSEN, The Muqarnas Plate Found at Takht-i Sulayman: A New InterpretationAYŞİN YOLTAR-YILDIRIM, A 1498-99 Khusraw Va Shīrīn: Turning the Pages of an Ottoman Illustrated ManuscriptSAMER AKKACH, The Poetics of Concealment: Al-Nabulusi’s Encounter with the Dome of the RockEBBA KOCH, The Taj Mahal: Architecture, Symbolism, and Urban SignificanceCAROLINE FINKEL AND VICTOR OSTAPCHUK, Outpost of Empire: An Appraisal of Ottoman Building Registers as Sources for the Archeology and Construction History of the Black Sea Fortress of ÖziMAURICE CERASI, The Urban and Architectural Evolution of the Istanbul Divanyolu: Urban Aesthetics and Ideology in Ottoman Town BuildingPAOLO GIRARDELLI, Architecture, Identity, and Liminality: On the Use and Meaning of Catholic Spaces in Late Ottoman IstanbulSUSAN GILSON MILLER, Finding Order in the Moroccan City: The Ḥubus of the Great Mosque of Tangier as an Agent of Urban Change