MUQARNAS BIBLIOGRAPHY AND LINKS

The majority of works that treats Islamic architecture would come across muqarnas.This page is a muqarnas bibliography and links citing only the works where muqarnas is treated in depth. It is categorized according to the importance of muqarnas in its context into:

Works on buildings with emphasis on their Muqarnas parts
Works with Muqarnas as a sub-subject (or chapter)
Works with Muqarnas as the main subject

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Works on Buildings with emphasis on their Muqarnas parts
Akok,Mahmut 1966

Sivas 'da Buruciye Medressesinin Rolovesi si

Turk Arkeoloji Dergisi 15-2: 5-38  

Akok, Mahmut 1967

Kayseri Huand Mimari Kulliyesinin Rolovesi

Turk Arkeoloji Dergisi 16-1: 5-44  

Akok,Mahmut 1968

Kayseri 'de Gevher Nesibe Sultan Darussifasi veSahibiye Medresesi Rolove ve Mimarisi

Turk Arkeoloji Dergisi 17-1: 133-184  

Akok, Mahmut 1969

Kayseri 'de Sultanhani, Kosk Medrese ve Alaca Mescit Diye Tanilan Uc Selcuklu Mimari Es'erin Rolovesi

TurkArkeoloji Dergisi 17-2: 5-41  

Akok, Mahmut 1969

Konya Karatay Medresesi Rolove,Mimarisi

Turk Arkeoloji Dergisi 18-2: 5-28  

Akok, Mahmut 1970

Konya'da Sahib-ata Hanikah, Caminiu Rolove ve Mimarisi

TurkArkeoloji Dergisi 19-2: 5-38  

Akok, Mahmut 1974

Ishakli Kervan Sarayi

Turk Arkeoloji Dergisi 21-2: 5-21  

Ecochard, M. and Le Coeur, C. 1942-1943

Les Bains de Damas

  Damascus:Institute Francais de Damascus

Golvin, L. 1965

Recherches Archeologiques a la Oala des Banu Hammad

  Paris

Jawad, Mustafa 1947

Al-`Amarat Al-Islamiyya Al-`Atiqa Al-Qai'ma fi Baghdad [Old Islamic Buildings In Baghdad]

SumarIII-I: 38-59  
     




Works with Muqarnas as a sub-subject (or chapter)
Al-Kashi 1960

MiftahAl-Hisab

Edited by Nader Nabulsi Damascus: Damascus University

Al-Kashi 1960

MiftahAl-Hisab

Edited by Ahmad Said Al-Damirdash and Muhammad Hamdi Al-Hafani Al-shaukh Cairo: Dar Al-Karib Al-Arabi

Burkhardt, Titus 1976

Art of Islam -Language and Meaning

  Westrham, Kent: World of Islam Festival Trust

Golombek, Lisa 1971

The Chronology of Turbat-i Shaikh Jam

Iran IX: 27-44  

Golombek, Lisa and Wilber,Donald 1988

The Timurid Architecture of Iran an Turan

2 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press

Grabar, Oleg 1987

The Alhambra

  Cambridge

Herzfeld, Ernst 1942

Damascus: Studies in Architecture I

Ars Islamica IX: 1-53  

Lewcock Ronald 1978

Materials and Techniques

In Architecture of the Islamic World- Its History and Social Meaning, pp 129-143. Edited by George Mitchell London: Thames and Hudson Ltd

Lo'pez De Arenas,Diego 1933

Breve Compendio de la Carpinteri'a de lo Blanco y Tratado de Alarifes

  Madrid: R.A'lvarez. Original edition, Sevilla: LuisEstupa'n

Lo'pez De Arenas, Diego 1966

Primera y Segunda Parte de las Reglaas de la Carpinteri'a

Introduction and technical terms by M.Go'mez - Moreno Madrid

Necipoglu [-Kafadar], Gulru 1992

Geometric Design in Timurid/ Turkmen Architectural Practice: Thoughts on a Recently Discovered Scroll and its Late Gothic Parallels

In Timurid Art and Culture in Iran and Central Asia in the Fifteenth Century, pp 48-66. Edited by Lisa Golombek and Maria Subtelny New York: E.J. Brill

Necipoglu, Gulru 1995

The Topkapi Scroll- Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture

  Santa Monica: The Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities

Paccard,  Andre' 1974

Traditional Islamic Craft in Moroccan Architecture

2 vols. Trans.  Mary Guggenheim Atelier

Yaghan, Mohammad Ali Jalal 2001

Teaching Architectural-Visual-Experience through Virtual Reality Using VRML: Muqarnas Example

The Proceedings of the Symposium on the Development of Engineering and Environmental Design Education, 12-14 February 2001, 87-97 College of Engineering and College of Environmental Design - King Abdulaziz Univesity- Saudi Arabia





Works with Muqarnas as the main subject
Al-Asad, Mohammad 1995

The Muqarnas: A Geometric Analysis."

In The Topkapi Scroll- Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture By Gulru Necipoglu., pp. 349-359 Santa Monica: The Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities

Al-Hadithi, `Atta and Hana `Abd Al-Khaliq 1974

Al-Qibab al-Makhrutiyya fil `Iraq [Conical Domes

  Baghdad: Ministry of Information, Directorate General of Antiquities

Dold-Samplonius, Yvonne 1992

Practical Arabic Mathematics: Measuring the Muqarnas by al-Kashi

Centaurus 35, pp. 193-242  

Ecochard, Michel 1977

Filiation de Monuments Gress, Byzantins et Islamiques: une Qestion de Geometrie

  Paris: Geuthnev

Diaz, Ernest 1987

Mukarnas

E.J. Brill's Encyclopadia of Islam 1913-1936, vol. IX Supplement  

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris 1993

Mukarnas

Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. VII Leiden-New York E.J.Brill

Fernandez-Puertas, A. 1993

Mukarbas

Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. VII Leiden-New York E.J.Brill

Fukami, Naoko 1994

Studies on Muqarnas-vaulting in the Islamic Architecture: 1) the Area of central Asia: Khorasan, Khoarzum and Turan

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Japan 22: 2-36  

Fukami, Naoko 1996

Studies on Muqarnas-vaulting in the Islamic Architecture: 2) the Area of Iran: Mazandaran, Azerbaijan, Tehran, Isfahan and Yazd-Fars-kerman

Journal of the society of Architectural Historians of Japan 25: 23-61  

Fukami, Naoko 1996

Studies on Muqarnas-vaulting in the Islamic Architecture: 3) the Areas of Anatolia, Syria and Iraq

Journal of the society of Architectural Historians of Japan 27: 2-46  

Golvin, L. 1974

Les  Plafonds   a Muqarnas   de   la   Qalea de   Bunu  Hammad ei Leur   Influence   Possible Sur   l'art de  la   Sicile   a  la  periode  Normande

ROMM XVII: 63-69  

Haydar, Kamil 1994

al-'Amarah al-'Arabiyya al-Islamiyyah: al-Khasa`s al-Takhtitiyya Lil Muqarnasat [Arabic Islamic Architecture: Characteristics of Muqarnas]

  Beirut: Dar al-Fikr al-lbnani

Harb, Ulrich 1978

Ilkhanidische Stalaktitengewolbe Beitrage zu Entwurf und Bautechnik

  Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag

Hautecoeur, L. 1931

De la  Trompe aux  Mukarnas

La Gazette des Beaux-Arts VI: 26-51

 

Notkin, Iosif Isakevich 1970

Stalaktity XIV V. Iz Ansamblia Shakhi-Zinda" [Stalactites of the Fourteenth Century from the Shahi Zinda Complex]

Zodchestvo Uzbekistana 2: 239-254  

Notkin,  Iosif Isakevich 1995

Decoding Muqarnas Drawings by a Sixteenth-Century Bukharan   Master Builder

Muqarnas: an Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture 12: 148-171  

Odekan, A[yla] 1977

Osmanli Oncesi Anadolu Turk Mimarisinde Mukarnasli Portal Ortuleri

  Istanbul:  Istanbul Teknik Universitesi Mimarlzk fakultesi

Odekan, A[yla] 1981

Erken Donen Osmanli Mukarnasli Kapi Nisi Ortuleri

  basilmamis docentliktez

Odekan, Ayla 1986

Some Observations on Mukarnas Decoration at the Portal Coverings of Sinan Period

In Proceedings of II International Congress on the History of Turkish and Islamic Science and Technology, 28 April- 2 May 1986, Vol II: Architect Sinan, pp 115- 123  

Ozdural, Alpay 1990

Giyaseddin Jemshid El-Kashi  and Stalactites

Middle East Technical University, Journal of the Faculty of Architecture 10, Nos. 1-2: 31-49  

Pauty, M. Edmond 1929

Contribtion a l'Etude des Stalactites

Bulletin de l'Institute Francais d'Archeologie Orientale XXIX: 129-153  

Prieto y  Vives, A. 1907

 Geometri'a Decorativa Los  Moc'arabs

Cultura Espanola 5:  229-50  

Rosintal, Josef 1928

Pendentifs, Trompes et Stalactites de L'architecture Orientale

 

Paris: Paul Geunther


Rosintal, Josef 1937

Le Re'seau, Forme Interme'diaire Perse Inconnue Jusqu' a Pre'sent

  Paris: Paul Geunther


Rosintal, Josef 1938

L'origine de Stalactites de L'architecture Orientale

  Paris: Paul Geuthner

Rosintal, J. and Schroeder, E. 1964-5

N. Squinches, Pendentives, and Stalactites

In A Survey of Persian Art, vol. III (text- Architecture), pp. 1252-1257. Edited by Arther Upham  Pope. Asia Institute of  Pahlavi University

Shiro, Takahashi 1982

Study of Stalactite

Tama Art University Bulletin I: 135-152  

Spiers, R. Phene 1905

Stalactite (Honeycomb) Vaulting: Its Origin in Saracenic Architecture

In Architecture East and West, pp. 44-56. Edited by R. Spiers and others London

Tabba, Yaser 1985

The Muqarnas Dome: Its Origin and Meaning

Muqarnas: an Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture 3: 61-74  

Yaghan, Mohammad Ali March 2003

Gadrooned-Dome’s Muqarnas-Corbel: Analysis and Decoding Historical Drawings

Architectural Science Review, vol.46, No. 1: 69-88  

Yaghan, Mohammad Ali 2001

The Islamic Architectural Element 'Muqarnas': Definition, Geometrical Analysis, and a Computer Generation System

  Vienna: Phoibos Verlag

Yaghan, Mohammad Ali Sep. 2001

The Muqarnas Pre-designed Erecting Units: Analysis, Definition of the Generic Set of Units, and a System of Unit-Creation as a New Evolutionary Step

Architectural Science Review, vol.44, No. 3: 297-318  

Yaghan, Mohammad Ali 2003

Teaching Architectural-Visual-Experience Through Virtual Reality Using VRML: Muqarnas Example.

Journal of King Abdulaziz University (Environmental Design Sciences), Vol.1: 27-42  

Yaghan, Mohammad Ali 1998

Structural Genuine Muqarnas Dome: Definition, Unit Analysis, and a Computer Generation System

Journal of King Saud University, vol. 10, Architecture and Planning: 17-52  

Yaghan, Mohammad Ali 1997

The Definition and Unit Analysis of the Structural Genuine Muqarnas Dome

Bulletin of JSSD [Japanese Society for the Science of Design], Vol. 43, No.6  

Yaghan, Mohammad Ali, and Mitsui Hideki Oct. 1995

Muqarnas Typology: A Tool for Definition and a Step in Creating a Computer Algorithm for Muqarnas Generation System

In The Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the JSSD [Japanese Society for the Science of Design], p. 156  
To add a reference or alink, please contact:
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