Muqarnas ─ An Annual of the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World

"Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World" is sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. "Muqarnas 29" features a subset of articles involving cross-cultural interactions between East and West as manifested in the visual culture of the region. Articles addressing this theme include Visual Cosmopolitanism and Creative Translation: Artistic Conversations with Renaissance Italy in Mehmed II s Constantinople, by G lru Necipo lu, and The Bride of Trebizond: Turks And Turkmens on a Florentine Wedding Chest, circa 1460, by Cristelle Baskins. The Notes and Sources section highlights new research on the medieval town of Hulbuk in Central Asia. Contributors include: G lru Necipo lu, Cristelle Baskins, Ana Pulido-Rull, Matt D. Saba, Jasmin Badr, Mustafa Tupev, nver Rustem, Ethem Eldem and Pierre Sim on.

Gulru Necipoglu, (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.