"Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts."

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"Mihrab and ʻAnaza" or "sacrum and spear"? A reconsideration of an early Marwanid silver Drachm / Luke Treadwell -- The "speaking" inkwell from Khurasan : object as "world" in Iranian medieval metalwork / Hana Taragan -- Qarakhanid wall paintings in the Citadel of Samarqand : first report and preliminary observations / Yury Karev -- The Muqarnas plate found at Takht-i Sulayman : a new interpretation / Yvonne Dold-Samplonius and Silvia L. Harmsen -- A 1498-99 Khusraw va Shīrīn : turning the pages of an Ottoman illustrates manuscript / Ays̥i̇n Yoltar-Yildirim -- The poetics of concealment : Al-Nabulusi's encounter with the Dome of the Rock / Samer Akkach -- The Taj Mahal : architecture, symbolism, and urban significance / Ebba Koch -- Outpost of empire : an appraisal of Ottoman building registers as sources for the archeology and construction history of the Black Sea Fortress of Özi / Caroline Finkel and Victor Ostapchuk -- The urban and architectural evolution of the Istanbul Divanyolu : urban aesthetics and ideology in Ottoman town building / Maurice Cerasi -- Architecture, identity, and liminality : on the use and meaning of catholic spaces in late Ottoman Istanbul / Paolo Girardelli -- Finding order in the Moroccan city : the Ḥubus of the Great Mosque of Tangier as an agent of urban change / Susan Gilson Miller.