What is Muqarnas?
The Aga Khan Program at Harvard sponsors publication of scholarly works on the history of Islamic art and architecture. Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World, is a yearly volume of articles on art and architectural history, edited by Professor Gülru Necipoğlu. Muqarnas 24 contains revised versions of thirteen papers presented at the May 2006 conference, “Historiography and Ideology: Architectural Heritage of the “Lands of Rum,” organized by Gülru Necipoğlu and Sibel Bozdoğan. Muqarnas 25 is a festschrift in honor of Professor Oleg Grabar on his eightieth birthday. Muqarnas 26, due out in Fall 2009, contains a wide variety of articles with titles ranging from "The Umayyad Mosque of Tiberias" to "Under the Peacock Throne: Carpets, Felts, and Silks in Persian Painting, 1736-1834."
Where can I purchase Muqarnas?
Muqarnas can be purchased directly through our publisher, Brill, in most cases. It can also be purchased via special order at a local bookshop. Please be aware that Muqarnas has a limited print run and therefore some volumes may be out-of-print. You can view manuscripts from volumes 1-18 via Archnet.
Guidelines for Submission of Articles to Muqarnas
Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is a scholarly journal comprising articles on art, architectural history, archaeology, and all aspects of Islamic visual cultures, historical and contemporary. Starting with volume 26, full-length articles will be accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources.”
Authors are asked to provide the following information with their submissions: institutional affiliation (if any), mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. Manuscripts should be submitted as e-mail attachments in Microsoft Word, along with low-resolution illustrations. If an article is accepted for publication, authors will be expected to make revisions based on the reader’s and editor’s reports and to submit higher-resolution images on a CD at that time. Send submissions to muqarnas@fas.harvard.edu. The deadline is March 1st for publication in November of the following calendar year. Articles that do not follow Muqarnas style will be returned to the author for revision.
Muqarnas conforms to The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition (henceforth CMS). Authors are required to use the diacritic-friendly Jaghbub, a font that can be downloaded free, and that is available for PC and Mac (http://www.smi.uib.no/ksv/Jaghbub.html).
Submissions should be double-spaced throughout in 12-pt. typeface. Please do not justify the right margin. Use a five-character paragraph indent. Institutional affiliation and location should appear on the last text page.
Articles should be no more than about 50 pages (not including endnotes) and have an upper limit of 25 to 30 illustrations. Although some exceptions may be made, in general more lengthy articles will be published in two or more parts appearing in successive volumes.
All articles are subject to review by the editor and an anonymous external reader, whose comments will be sent to the author, if the article is accepted for publication.
Illustrations
Illustrations should be labeled and accompanied by a double-spaced caption list indicating the preferred size of illustrations (i.e., full, half, quarter page). Authors should provide specific directions if they want the images to be grouped in a particular manner. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain permissions to use copyrighted illustrations and to provide the appropriate credit-line information.
Illustrations should be submitted as digital images (color or b/w) in TIFF format, scanned at 300 dpi in a size that will fill at least a half page (about 4 x 6 inches). Please title each digital image with your name and the figure number.
Images not submitted in the format indicated above will not be accepted for publication.
Foreign Terms and Transliterations
Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their transliterations. Foreign terms and phrases must be italicized and their diacriticals included.
For the transliteration of Arabic and Persian, Muqarnas uses the Encyclopaedia of Islam system, but with the omission of subscript bars and the substitution of q for ‚k and j for dj; for Ottoman Turkish, authors should use the EI system. All transliterated words and phrases in the text and transliterated authors’ names and titles in the endnotes must follow this system. Exceptions include Arabic words that have entered the English language (e.g., mihrab, madrasa, iwan, Abbasid, Muhammad); these should be treated as English words, that is, not italicized and without diacriticals.
Place names and names of historical personages with no English equivalent should be transliterated but, aside from ayn and hamza, diacritical marks should be omitted (e.g., Maqrizi, Fustat, San'a). However, in the endnotes, Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish authors’ names and titles must be fully transliterated.
Citations
Authors are responsible for the accuracy of all citations. Citations to source materials should be numbered consecutively throughout the text and presented as endnotes—that is, notes grouped together at the conclusion of the text. Like the text, endnotes should be double-spaced.
The endnotes should accord with CMS, Chapter 17. “Ibid.” should be used for uninterrupted, successive references to the same work. When referring to a previously cited work that does not follow without interruption, use the author’s name and a shortened title, not the date of publication of the work. Do not use “op. cit.” Names and titles in non-Roman alphabets (Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, etc.) must be transliterated. Titles in Roman alphabets should be capitalized as they would be in the book’s language.
As stated above, Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish authors’ names and titles must be fully transliterated when cited in the endnotes.
Publishers may be included or omitted in the endnotes, but be consistent throughout.
Do not use initials for first names—unless of course the author identifies himself or herself in that way: K.A.C. Creswell, R.D. McChesney. Use the full title in the first citation of a work.
For more details and further examples, please download the style sheet, or contact muqarnas@fas.harvard.edu
To order Muqarnas, please visit www.brill.nl
Send submissions electronically to:
muqarnas@fas.harvard.edu
Mailing Address:
Managing Editor, Muqarnas
Sackler Museum
485 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Inquiries:
Phone: 617-495-3774
Fax: 617-496-8389
E-mail: Muqarnas
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Muqarnas Volume 25 |
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Muqarnas Volume 24
Historiography and Ideology: Architectural Heritage of the "Lands of Rum" Editor, Gülru Necipoğlu Managing Editor, Julia Bailey Publ. 2007 ISBN: 978-90-04-16320-1 Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 23
Editor, Gülru Necipoğlu Managing Editor, Julia Bailey Publ. 2006 ISBN: 90-04-15492-2 Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 22
Editor, Gülru Necipoğlu Managing Editor, Julia Bailey Publ. 2005 ISBN: 90-04-14702-0 Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 21
Essays in Honor of J. M. Rogers Guest Editors, Doris Behrens-Abouseif and Anna Contadini Managing Editor, Julia Bailey Publ. 2004 ISBN: 90-04-13964-8 Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 20
Editor, Gülru Necipoğlu Managing Editor, Julia Bailey Publ. 2003 ISBN: 90-04-13207-4 Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 19
Editor, Gülru Necipoğlu Managing Editor, the late Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 2002 ISBN: 90-04-125930 Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 18
Editor, Gülru Necipoğlu Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 2001 ISBN: 90-04-122346 E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 17
Guest Editor, David J. Roxburgh Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 2000 ISBN: 90-04-11669-9 E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 16
Editor, Gülru Necipoğlu Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ.1999 ISBN: 90-04-11482-3 E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 15
Editor, Gülru Necipoğlu Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 1998 ISBN: 90-04-11084-4 E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 14
Editor, Gülru Necipoğlu Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 1997 ISBN: 90-04-108726 E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 13
Editor, Gülru Necipoğlu Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 1996 ISBN: 90-04-10633-2 E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents Editor's Note |
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Muqarnas Volume 12
Editor, Gülru Necipoğlu Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 1995 ISBN: 90-04-10314-7 E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 11
Editor, Gülru Necipoğlu Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 1994 ISBN: 90-04-10070-9 E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 10
Essays in Honor of Oleg Grabar Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 1993 ISBN: 90-04-09748-1 E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 9
Editor, Oleg Grabar Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 1992 ISBN: 90-04-09625-6 E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 8
K. A. C. Creswell and His Legacy Editor, Oleg Grabar Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 1991 ISBN: 90-04-09372-9 E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 7
Editor, Oleg Grabar Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 1990 ISBN: 90-04-09347-8 E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 6
Editor, Oleg Grabar Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 1989 ISBN: 90-04-09050-9 E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 5
Editor, Oleg Grabar Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 1988 ISBN: 90-04-08647-1 E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 4
Editor, Oleg Grabar Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 1987 ISBN: 90-04-08155-0 E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 3
Editor, Oleg Grabar Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 1985 ISBN: 90-04-07611-5 E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 2
Editor, Oleg Grabar Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 1984 ISBN: 0-300-03137-8 Yale University Press, USA Table of Contents |
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Muqarnas Volume 1
Editor, Oleg Grabar Managing Editor, Margaret Ševčenko Publ. 1983 ISBN: 0-300-02837-7 Yale University Press, USA Table of Contents |