Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Note to the Reader xi
6. Treasures from the Islamic World at the Royal Ontario Museum xiii
7. Introduction 3
8. Reading Architecture
9. Mshatta’s Façade and the Viewer 25
10. Innovative Tomb or Garden Retreat? The Bara Batashewala Mahal in Mughal Delhi 60
11. The Wazir Khan Masjid in Lahore: A Study of the Inscriptions 98
12. The Mosques of Firuz Shah 131
13. Archaeological Research
14. The Challenge of Interpreting Archaeological Remains in the Light of Written Sources: A Discussion Based on the Work of the Canadian Archaeological Mission in Zabid, Yemen 151
15. The Canadian Archaeological Mission of the Royal Ontario Museum in Yemen 167
16. Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Preliminary Observations on the Production and Use of Ceramic Drainage Pipes in the Islamic Middle East 196
17. A Group of Fourteenth-Century Ceramics from Deir Mar Musa, Syria 221
18. Material and Visual Culture
19. Reaching New Heights: The Giraffe in the Material Culture, Ceremonial, and Diplomacy of Fatimid Egypt 233
20. Investigations into Later Persian Ceramics at the Royal Ontario Museum (1987–) 255
21. The Stone Lions of Isfahan 272
22. Princes, Wine, and Animated Nature: Tabriz Painting about 1500 283
23. The Production and Reception of Islamic Art in Modern Times
24. Building the Islamic Art Collection at the Royal Ontario Museum: The First Decades 311
25. Henri Matisse’s Portrait of a Standing Riffian: Islam, Byzantium, and “Aristocratic Barbarism” 330
26. The Dialogic Exhibition 351
27. Process Thinking for Islamic Art and Media Art: Performative Abstraction and Collective Transformation 376
28. Illustrations 391
29. Contributors 401
30. Index 405