Muqarnas, Volume 6

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.

'...Die Zeitschrift Muqarnas gehört zu den wichtigsten und anregendsten aktuellen Veröffentlichungen auf dem Gebiet der islamischen Kunst...'M. Barrucand, Der Islam, 1988.

• Oleg Grabar, An Exhibition of High Ottoman ArtNasser Rabbat, The Meaning of the Umayyad Dome of the RockJamel Akbar, Khatta and the Territorial structure of Early Muslim TownsSaleh Lamei Mostafa, The Cairene Sabil: Its Form and MeaningSergei Chmelnizkij, Methods of Constructing Geometric Ornamental Systems in the Cupola of the AlhambraI.I. Notkin, Genotypes of Spatial Form in the Architecture of the EastPerween Hasan, Sultanate Mosques and Continuity in Bengal ArchitectureIqtidar Alam Khan, New Light on the History of Two Early Mughal Monuments of BayanaEva Baer, Jeweled Ceramics from Medieval Islam: A Note on the Ambiguity of Islamic OrnamentPeter Chelkowski, Narrative Painting and Painting Recitation in Qajar IranDonna Stein, Three Photographic Traditions in Nineteenth-Century IranB.W. Robinson, Qajar LacquerLayla S. Diba, Persian Painting in the Eighteenth CenturyNancy Micklewright, Late-Nineteenth-Century Century Ottoman Wedding Costumes as Indicators of Social Change