Article: Muqarnas, an Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture, vol. 8: K.A.C. Creswell and His Legacy.

Edited by Oleg Grabar. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1991. Pp. 138. HFI 90, $51.43. K. A. C. Creswell's works are continually being reexamined and updated. A Festschrift, Studies in Islamic Art and Architecture in Honour of Professor K. A. C. Creswell (American University in Cairo Press) was dedicated to him in 1965. This volume of Muqamas contains articles adapted from lectures originally delivered at an Oxford University symposium, held on May 1 and 2, 1988. Grabar, a contributor to the 1965 publication, introduces the latter volume with a personal memoir of the man and gives an assessment of Creswell's contribution to the field of early Islamic architecture. Though not a ...

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