Muqarnas, Volume 23

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.

• CONTENTSDORIS BEHRENS-ABOUSEIF, The Islamic History of the Lighthouse of AlexandriaSTEPHENNIE MULDER, The Mausoleum of Imam al-ShafiʿiANNA CONTADINI, A Question in Arab Painting: The Ibn al-Sufi Manuscript in Tehran and Its Art-Historical ConnectionsCHAD KIA, Is the Bearded Man Drowning? Picturing the Figurative in a Late-Fifteenth-Century Painting from HeratMARYAM EKHTIAR, Practice Makes Perfect: The Art of Calligraphy Exercises (Siyāh Mashq) in IranABDOLHAMID KESHMIRSHEKAN, Discourses on Postrevolutionary Iranian Art: Neotraditionalism during the 1990sWILLEM FLOOR, The Woodworking Craft and Its Products in IranELIZABETH LAMBOURN, Brick, Timber, and Stone: Building Materials and the Construction of Islamic Architectural History in GujaratHUSSEIN KESHANI, Architecture and the Twelver Shiʿi Tradition: The Great Imambara Complex of Lucknowİ$LKNUR AKTUĞ KOLAY AND SERPİL ÇELİK, Ottoman Stone Acquisition in the Mid-Sixteenth Century: The Süleymaniye Complex in IstanbulVİLDAN SERDAROĞLU, When Literature and Architecture Meet: Architectural Images of the Beloved and the Lover in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman PoetrySELİN İPEK, Ottoman Ravzva-ı Mutahhara Covers Sent from Istanbul to Medina with the Surre ProcessionsMARCUS MILWRIGHT, So Despicable a Vessel: Representations of Tamerlane in Printed Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries