The Encyclopaedia of Islam

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Oleg Grabar, 'Michael Meinecke and His Last Book.'
Thomas Leisten, 'Mashhad al-Nasr: Monuments of War and Victory in Medieval Islamic Art.'
Jere L. Bacharach, 'Marwanid Umayyad Building Activities: Speculations on Patronage.'
Nuha N.N. Khoury, 'The Meaning of the Great Mosque of Cordoba in the Tenth Century.'
Nasser Rabbat, 'Al-Azhar Mosque: An Architectural Chronicle of Cairo's History.'
Howyda N. Al-Harithy, 'The Complex of Sultan Hasan in Cairo: Reading between the Lines.'
Michael Cooperson, 'Baghdad in Rhetoric and Narrative.'
Aptullah Kuran, 'A Spatial Study of Three Ottoman Capitals: Bursa, Edirne, and Istanbul.'
Filiz Çaĥman and Zeren Tanindi, 'Remarks on Some Manuscripts at the Topkapi Palace Treasury in the Context of Ottoman-Safavid Relations.'
Yildirim Yavuz, 'The 1922-26 Restoration Project of the Masjid al-Aqsa by Mimar Kemalettin.'
Anthony Welch, 'A Medieval Center of Learning in India: The Haus Khas in Delhi.'
Alpay Özdural, 'On Interlocking Similar or Corresponding Figures and Ornamental Patterns of Cubic Equations.'
 

Contents

Speculations on Patronage
27
An Architectural Chronicle of Cairos History
45
Reading between the Lines
68
MICHAEL COOPERSON Baghdad in Rhetoric and Narrative
99
Bursa Edirne and Istanbul
114
FİLİZ ÇAĞMAN AND ZEREN TANINDI Remarks on Some Manuscripts from the Topkapi Palace
132
YILDIRIM YAVUZ The Restoration Project of the Masjid alAqsa by Mimar Kemalettin 192226
149
The Haus Khas Madrasa in Delhi
165
ALPAY ÖZDURAL On Interlocking Similar or Corresponding Figures and Ornamental Patterns
191
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