And Diverse Are Their Hues: Color in Islamic Art and Culture

Olga Bush
“Designs Always Polychromed or Gilded”: the Aesthetics of Color in the Alhambra

Maribel Fierro
“The Battle of Colors”: Colors and Their Meaning in the Search for Political Legitimacy in the Islamic West

Samir Mahmoud
Color, Symbolism, and the Mystic Quest: the Spiritual Exegesis of Color in Sufism

Julie Scott Meisami
“I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues”: Depictions of Majnun in Persian Illustrated Manuscripts

Lawrence Nees
Golden Letters on Blue

Bernard O’Kane
Ceramics in or on the Building? The Relationships of Architecture and the Consumer in the Development of Pottery and Tilework

Cheryl Porter
The Role of Tradition, Geography and Economics in the Choice of Artists’ Colors Used for Painting in Manuscripts

Noha Sadek
Colors of Power and Piety in Rasulid Yemen

Michael Schreffler
“Threads of Many Colors”: Islam, America, and the Visual Culture of Conquest

Marianna Shreve Simpson
“A Perfect Red” to “My Name Is Red”: Ahmar, Surkh, and Kirmizi in the History of Islamic Art

Manu P. Sobti & Mohammad Gharipour
The Hues of Paradise – Examining Color Design Layout in the Islamic Garden

Jon Thompson
Some Observations on Color in Carpets