Volume 19, Numbers 2-3, pages 81-224 (2008)

Islamic Art and Symmetry

(Special issue edited by Raymond Tennant and György Darvas)

EDITORIAL

• Raymond Tennant and György Darvas
  Summary to the special issue Symmetry in Islamic Art
  Volume 19, Numbers 2-3, pages 85-86 (2008)
  
  

• Satu Kähkönen
  East and West - Contrasting ways of perceiving ornament
  Volume 19, Numbers 2-3, pages 87-93 (2008)
  
  
• Brian Wichmann
  Symmetry in Islamic geometric art
  Volume 19, Numbers 2-3, pages 95-112 (2008)
  
  
• Raymond Tennant
  Medieval Islamic architecture, quasicrystals, and Penrose and girih tiles: Questions from the classroom
  Volume 19, Numbers 2-3, pages 113-125 (2008)
  
  
• Emil Makovicky
  Another look at the Blue Tomb of Marāgha, a site of the first quasicrystalline Islamic pattern
  Volume 19, Numbers 2-3, pages 127-151 (2008)
  
  
• Reza Sarhangi
  Modules and modularity in mosaic patterns
  Volume 19, Numbers 2-3, pages 153-163 (2008)
  
  
• Jean-Marc Castera
  Arabesques for Abu Dhabi - an octagonal system
  Volume 19, Numbers 2-3, pages 165-174 (2008)
  
  
• Paul Gailiunas
  Knot designs from snowflake curves
  Volume 19, Numbers 2-3, pages 175-182 (2008)
  
  
• Stanley N. Salthe
  Symmetry breaking in Islamic weavings
  Volume 19, Numbers 2-3, pages 183-198 (2008)
  
  
• Carol Bier
  Weaving infinity: Symmetry in Islamic carpets
  Volume 19, Numbers 2-3, pages 199-219 (2008)
  
  

BOOK REVIEW

• György Darvas
  
  • Joe Rosen
    Symmetry Rules, How Science and Nature are Founded on Symmetry
    Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008, xiv+304 p.
    
  Volume 19, Numbers 2-3, pages 220-221 (2008)