Muqarnas, Volume 7

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, Europe and the Orient: An Ideologically Charged ExhibitionThomas Leisten, Between Orthodoxy and Exegesis: Some Aspects of Attitudes in the Shariʿa toward Funerary ArchitectureSergei Chmelnizkij, The Mausoleum of Muhammad BosharoSheila S. Blair, Sufi Saints and Shrine Architecture in the Early Fourteenth CenturyMichael E. Bonine, The Sacred Direction and City Structure: A Preliminary Analysis of the Islamic Cities of MoroccoD. Fairchild Ruggles, The Mirador in Abbasid and Hispano-Umayyad Garden TypologyMohammad Yusuf Siddiq, An Epigraphical Journey to an Eastern Islamic LandUlrike Al-Khamis, The Iconography of Early Islamic Lusterware from Mesopotamia: New ConsiderationsScott Redford, How Islamic Is It? The Innsbruck Plate and Its SettingGülru Necipoğlu, From International Timurid to Ottoman: A Change of Taste in Sixteenth-Century Ceramic TilesLeonard Helfgott, Carpet Collecting in Iran, 1873–1883: Robert Murdoch Smith and the Formation of the Modern Persian Carpet IndustryJo Tonna, The Poetics of Arab-Islamic Architecture