Contents -- In Tribute to Oleg Grabar -- Bibliography 1993-2007 -- Patricia Crone, "Barefoot and Naked": What Did the Bedouin of the Arab Conquests Look Like? -- Michael Cook, The Namesake Taboo -- Gülru Neci.poÅlu, The Dome of the Rock as Palimpsest: 'Abd al-Malik's Grand Narrative and Sultan Süleyman's Glosses -- Eva R. Hoffman, Between East and West: The Wall Paintings of Samarra and the Construction of Abbasid Princely Culture -- Yasser Tabbaa, Andalusian Roots and Abbasid Homage in the Qubbat al-Barudiyyin in Marrakech -- Nasser Rabbat, Design without Representation in Medieval Egypt -- Sheila S. Blair, A Brief Biography of Abu Zayd -- Scott Redford, A Newly Read Inscription on the Walls of Antalya, Turkey -- Cynthia Robinson, Marginal Ornament: Poetics, Mimesis, and Devotion in the Palace of the Lions -- Howayda Al-Harithy, Weaving Historical Narratives: Beirut's Last Mamluk Monument -- Jonathan M. Bloom, The "Fatimid" Doors of the Fakahani Mosque in Cairo -- Lisa Golombek, From Timur to Tivoli: Refl ections on il giardino all'italiana -- Anthony Welch, The Emperor's Grief: Two Mughal Tombs -- David J. Roxburgh, "The Eye Is Favored for Seeing the Writing's Form": On the Sensual and the Sensuous in Islamic Calligraphy -- Tülay Artan, A Book of Kings Produced and Presented as a Treatise on Hunting -- Mika Natif, The SOAS Anvar-i Suhayli: The Journey of a "Reincarnated" Manuscript -- Marianna Shreve Simpson, Mostly Modern Miniatures: Classical Persian Painting in the Early Twentieth Century.