Muqarnas, Volume 30

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.

• CONTENTSGülru Necipoğlu, Reflections on Thirty Years of MuqarnasBenedict Cuddon, A Field Pioneered by Amateurs: The Collecting and Display of Islamic Art in Early Twentieth-Century BostonSilvia Armando, Ugo Monneret de Villard (1881–1954) and the Establishment of Islamic Art Studies In ItalyAyşin Yoltar-Yildirim, Raqqa: The Forgotten Excavation of an Islamic Site in Syria by the Ottoman Imperial Museum in the Early Twentieth CenturyD. Fairchild Ruggles, At the Margins of Architectural and Landscape History: The Rajputs of South AsiaJennifer Pruitt, Methodi in Madness: Recontextualizing the Destruction of Churches in the Fatimid EraPeter Christensen, “As if she were Jerusalem”: Placemaking in Sephardic SalonicaDavid J. Roxburgh, In Pursuit of Shadows: Al-Hariri’s MaqāmātAbolala Soudavar, The Patronage of the Vizier Mirza SalmanLâle Uluç, An Iskandarnāma of Nizami Produced for Ibrahim SultanNOTES AND SOURCESSerpil Bağci, Presenting Vaṣṣāl Kalender’s Works: The Prefaces of Three Ottoman AlbumsGülru Necipoğlu, “Virtual Archaeology” in Light of a New Document on the Topkapı Palace’s Waterworks and Earliest Buildings, circa 1509Ebba Koch, The Wooden Audience Halls of Shah Jahan: Sources and Reconstruction