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

Includes bibliographical references.

The Islamic history of the Lighthouse of Alexandria / Doris Behrens-Abouseif -- The Mausoleum of Imam al-Shafiʻi / Stephennie Mulder -- A question in Arab painting: the Ibn al-Sufi manuscript in Tehran and its art-historical connections / Anna Contadini -- Is the bearded man drowning? Picturing the figurative in a late-fifteenth-century painting from Herat / Chad Kia -- Practice makes perfect: the art of calligraphy exercises (Siyāh Mashq) in Iran / Maryam Ekhtiar -- Discourses on postrevolutionary Iranian art: neotraditionalism during the 1990s / Abdolhamid Keshmirshekan -- The woodworking craft and its products in Iran / Willem Floor -- Brick, timber, and stone: building materials and the construction of Islamic architectural history in Gujarat / Elizabeth Lambourn -- Architecture and the Twelver Shiʻi tradition: the great Imambara Complex of Lucknow / Hussein Keshani -- Ottoman stone acquisition in the mid-sixteenth century: the Süleymaniye Complex in Istanbul / Ilknur Aktuğ Kolay and Serpil C̜elik -- When literature and architecture meet: architectural images of the beloved and the lover in sixteenth-century Ottoman poetry / Vildan Serdaroğlu -- Ottoman Ravza-i Mutahhara covers sent from Istanbul to Medina with the Surre processions / Selin Ipek -- So despicable a vessel: representations of Tamerlane in printed books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Marcus Milwright.