In 1976, Jane Norman—with help from Harry Bixler, Stef Stahl, and Margit Echols—wrote The Mathematics of Islamic Art, a groundbreaking Museum publication responding to the needs of math teachers eager to use the Museum’s resources in their classrooms. It became one of the Met’s most popular educational publications and has long since been out of...Read More

The main purpose of the research is to set up an initial framework of architectural description of Muslim architecture in Malaysia within the context of the architectural concern of ‘style’. The main concern is to elucidate clearly the different architectural styles of Muslim architecture and suggest hypotheses for future studies in relation to the forces...Read More

The romance of the Middle East, once called the Near East, has long been a source of fascination to me. My first memories are of a children’s version of The Arabian Nights published in the early 1900s by Blackie and Co. 1 It had evocative illustrations by Helen Stratton, some including architectural allegories. The visual...Read More

In this paper, I have identified and briefly examined two Islamic concepts which constitute tlre nucleus of the conceptual framework for sustainability in Islamic arclritecture. The two concepts are: 1) man as the vicegerent (khalifah) on earth, and 2) natural environment as both afield and means for man’s vicegerency mission. Central to tlre paper are...Read More