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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 31 contains articles spanning the vast parameters (both geographic and disciplinary) of the field of Islamic art and architecture, from Iberia to Central Europe to the Subcontinent, from the Madinat al-Zahraʾ in Cordoba to Ottoman textiles and costumes to Mughal painting. The volume also contains essays on lusterware produced in Seville in the Taifa period; gardens in the fourteenth-century text Bāgh-i Samanzār-i Nūshāb; the Elvan Çelebi complex in Anatolia; and Seljuq-era stucco sculptures from Iran.Authors include Susana Capilla, Stephan Heidemann, Benjamin Anderson, Hamidreza Jayhani, Heike Franke, Amanda Phillips, Adam Jasienski, and Ulrich Marzolph, with contributions to the “Notes and Sources” section by Carmen Barceló and Anja Heidenreich, and Deniz Türker.SommaireSusana Calvo Capilla, THE REUSE OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY IN THE PALACE OF MADINAT AL-ZAHRAʾ AND ITS ROLE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CALIPHAL LEGITIMACYStefan Heidemann, Jean-François de Lapérouse, and Vicki Parry, THE LARGE AUDIENCE: LIFE-SIZED STUCCO FIGURES OF ROYAL PRINCES FROM THE SELJUQ PERIODBenjamin Anderson, THE COMPLEX OF ELVAN ÇELEBI: PROBLEMS IN FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ARCHITECTUREHamidreza Jayhani, BĀGH-I SAMANZĀR-I NŪSHĀB: TRACING A LANDSCAPE, BASED ON THE BRITISH LIBRARY MASNAVĪ OF HUMĀY U HUMĀYŪNHeike Franke, EMPERORS OF ṢŪRAT AND MACNĪ: JAHANGIR AND SHAH JAHAN AS TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL RULERSAmanda Phillips, A MATERIAL CULTURE: OTTOMAN VELVETS AND THEIR OWNERS, 1600–1750Adam Jasienski, A SAVAGE MAGNIFICENCE: OTTOMANIZING FASHION AND THE POLITICS OF DISPLAY IN EARLY MODERN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPEUlrich Marzolph, FROM MECCA TO MASHHAD: THE NARRATIVE OF AN ILLUSTRATED SHIʿI PILGRIMAGE SCROLL FROM THE QAJAR PERIODVoir sur le site de l’éditeur