# Publications ## expand\_more ![Five most recent Muqarnas covers](/sites/g/files/omnuum9891/files/agakhan/files/last5_muq_strip_4_latest_covers_as_of_v40_2025_flat_smaller.jpg) The Aga Khan Program at Harvard University publishes scholarly works on the history of Islamic art and architecture. Established in 1983, *Muqarnas: An Annual on Material, Visual, and Architectural Cultures of the Islamic World*, is a volume of essays on art and architectural history. [*Muqarnas* 41](https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/71378) is the most recent volume, edited by Gülru Necipoğlu and Karen A. Leal. [*Muqarnas* 41](https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/71378) begins with Professor Gülru Necipoğlu’s remembrance of His Late Highness Prince Karim al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV (1936–2025), who in 1979 established the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and MIT. The volume features groundbreaking research on topics such as early Ottoman silk banners decorated with gold and silver, as well as silk carpets made for the tomb of Shah Abbas II; it also contains part II of an article on the Alhambra’s House of Paintings, which analyzes the exceptional figurative paintings on that building’s second floor (see *Muqarnas* 40, pp. 69–102, for Part I). Other articles reassess the paintings of the British Library/Chester Beatty *Akbarnāma* and compare medieval *zawīya*s in the Maghrib and Anatolia. Authors include Walid Akef, Íñigo Almela, Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, Gwendolyn Collaço, Heike Franke, Tuba Kurtuluş, Sarah Molina, and Nur Sobers-Khan. We are also honored to publish in this volume the last article by Catherine B. Asher (1947–2023), professor emerita in the Department of Art History at the University of Minnesota and a longtime member of the *Muqarnas* advisory board. Textual primary sources for visual culture are featured in *Supplements to Muqarnas*. Fourteen of these volumes have now been published, the latest of which is [Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4)](https://brill.com/view/title/55202) (2 vols). The subject of this two-volume publication is an inventory of manuscripts in the book treasury of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II from his royal librarian ʿAtufi in the year 908 (1502–3) and transcribed in a clean copy in 909 (1503–4). This unicum inventory preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gyűjtemény, MS Török F. 59) records over 5,000 volumes, and more than 7,000 titles, on virtually every branch of human erudition at the time. Edited by Gülru Necipoğlu, Cemal Kafadar and Cornell H. Fleischer. Both *Muqarnas* and *Supplements to Muqarnas* may be purchased through [Brill](https://brill.com/). For further information about each publication, visit the [Muqarnas](/muqarnas) and the [Supplements to Muqarnas](/supplements-muqarnas) sections of our website. Celebrating *Muqarnas*' 40th volume [here](https://brill.com/page/lp_muq40). See Muqarnas via [Archnet](https://www.archnet.org/collections/43). **For submission guidelines to** ***Muqarnas*****,** [**click here**](/submission-guidelines)**.** Aga Khan Program Editorial Office Harvard University Department of History of Art and Architecture 485 Broadway, 4th floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617-495-3774 Fax: 617-496-8389 Email: [The Managing Editor](mailto:muqarnas@fas.harvard.edu) [*Muqarnas* Academia.edu website](https://harvard.academia.edu/MuqarnasAgaKhanProgramforIslamicArchitecture) [Muqarnas 41](https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/71378) ![Muqarnas vol. 41 cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum9891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2026-01/Muq%2041%20COVER%20JPG.jpg?itok=M9snIzt2) For Muqarnas 41 Table of Contents, [click here]() [Muqarnas Supplements, Volume: 14](https://brill.com/view/title/55202) ![Muq Supp 14 Torok](/sites/g/files/omnuum9891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/agakhan/files/muq_supp_cvr_2019_constantc_low_res.jpg?itok=HY-he2Iz) For Muqarnas Supplement 14 Table of Contents, [click here](/file_url/411)