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.

• CONTENTSJere L. Bacharach, Signs of Sovereignty: The Shahāda, Qurʾanic Verses, and the Coinage of ʿAbd al-Malik Rina Avner, The Dome of the Rock in Light of the Development of Concentric Martyria in Jerusalem: Architecture and Architectural Iconography Kathryn Blair Moore, Textual Transmission and Pictorial Transformations: The Post-Crusade Image of the Dome of the Rock in Italy Alicia Walker, Middle Byzantine Aesthetics of Power and the Incomparability of Islamic Art:The Architectural Ekphraseis of Nikolaos MesaritesJulia Gonnella, Columns and Hieroglyphs: Magic Spolia in Medieval Islamic Architecture ofNorthern Syria Elizabeth A. Lambourn, A Self-Conscious Art? Seeing Micro-Architecture in Sultanate South Asia Todd Willmert, Alhambra Palace Architecture: An Environmental Consideration of Its InhabitationElias I. Muhanna, The Sultan’s New Clothes: Ottoman–Mamluk Gift Exchange in the Fifteenth Century Persis Berlekamp, The Limits of Artistic Exchange in Fourteenth-Century Tabriz: The Paradox of Rashid al-Din’s Book on Chinese Medicine, Part I Zeynep Tarım ErtuĞ, The Depiction of Ceremonies in Ottoman Miniatures: Historical Record ora Matter of Protocol? Ebba Koch, The Mughal Emperor as Solomon, Majnun, and Orpheus, or the Album as a Think Tankfor Allegory NOTES AND SOURCESHeike Franke, Akbar’s Kathāsaritsāgara: The Translator and Illustrations of an Imperial Manuscript Vincenza Garofalo, A Methodology for Studying Muqarnas: The Extant Examples in Palermo Fabrizio Agnello, The Painted Ceiling of the Nave of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo: An Essay on Its Geometric and Constructive Features