Wonders of creation : art, science, and innovation in the Islamic world / edited by Ladan Akbarnia.

Art, science, and innovation in the Islamic world

San Diego : The San Diego Museum of Art, [2025]

285 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 29 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Director's Foreword / Roxana Velásquez Martínez del Campo -- Introducttion -- The Universe in a Book / Ladan Akbarnia -- Part 1. In Pursuit of Wonder: Understanding the Universe Through Wonders and Rarities. Qazwini and His World / Persis Berlekamp ; The Cosmography: Qazwini's Ever Expanding Universe / Hannah Kemal-Hyden ; The Poetics of Wonder and Rarity / Travis Zadeh ; The Mahabharata as Wonder / Yael Rice -- Part 2. Superlunaries: The Celestial Realm. The Divine / Ladan Akbarnia ; Astronomy and the Timekeeper's Marvels / Taha Yasin Arslan ; The Makers / Glaire Anderson ; Astrology: A Science of Wonder / Liana Saif ; Talismans / Liana Saif -- Part 3. Sublunaries: The Terrestrial Realm. Marvels below the Moon / Ladan Akbarnia ; Iskandar's Quest for Wondrous Knowledge / Sunil Sharma ; Companions of the Cave / Ladan Akbarnia ; Wonders of the natural world / Ladan Akbarnia ; A Closer Look: Sceintific Examination at the Balboa Art Conservation Center / Elise Cabral, Bianca Garcia, Jennifer Loubser, Christopher Martinez, Morgan Wylder ; Matter Transformed: The Wondrous Arts of Fire and Earth / Margaret S. Graves ; A Luster Dish from Manises / Ladan Akbarnia -- Part 4. Humanity, Customs, and Crafts. Crafting Wonder / Ladan Akbarnia ; Healing and Adornment as Craft / Ladan Akbarnia ; Wonder and the Arts of the Book / Emine Fetvaci ; Living Crafts: A Replica from the Minbar of Mamluk Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay / Omniya Abdel Barr ; Mathematics and Wonder: Crafts, Geometry, and the Built Environment / Carol Bier ; Timo Nasseri: Florenz-Bagdad and the Wonder of Muqarnas / Ladan Akbarnia -- Epilogue. Wonder's Legacy / Ladan Akbarnia.