Muqarnas, Volume 5

Oleg Grabar (November 3, 1929 – January 8, 2011) was Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University until his retirement and joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He published more then 30 books and countless articles on a range of subjects. Among his best-known works are: Formation of Islamic Art, Illustrations of the Maqamat, The Alhambra, Great Mosque of Isfahan, Mediation of Ornament, Mostly Miniatures, Shape of the Holy, Dome of the Rock, Penser l'art Islamique, and Masterpieces of Islamic Art: The Decorated Page from the 8th to the 17th century. Grabar received many honors during his lifetime, including the Charles Lang Freer Medal in 2001 and, in 2010, the Chairman's Award at the Aga Khan Award for Architecture ceremony in Doha. He was the founding editor of Muqarnas.

'The issues of this journal...serve as a reliable annual on Islamic and even non-Islamic research.'Carolyn Kane, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1994.'...a great tool for many a researcher...In a variety of manners, questions every generation should ask, are set afresh in the light of new discoveries and techniques...'Yolande Crowe, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1994.

• Oleg Grabar, Between Connoisseurship and Technology: A ReviewHoward Crane, Traditional Pottery Making in the Sardis Region of Western Turkey Jonathan M. Bloom, The Introduction of the Muqarnas into Egypt Marilyn Jenkins, Mamluk Jewelry: Influences and Echoes Doris Behrens-Abouseif, The Takiyyat Ibrahim al-Kulshani in Cairo Godfrey Goodwin, Gardens of the Dead in Ottoman TimesJale Erzen, Sinan as Anti-Classicist Maurice Cerasi, Late Ottoman Architects and Master Builders R.D. McChesney, Four Sources on Shah ‘Abbas's Building of Isfahan Elizabeth B. Moynihan, The Lotus Garden Palace of Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur William G. Klingelhofer, The Jahangiri Mahal of the Agra Fort: Expression and Experience in Early Mughal Architecture