Islam ; Volume 1: Early Architecture from Baghdad to Cordoba / Henri Stierlin ; photographs, Anne and Henri Stierlin

By: Stierlin, HenriContributor(s): Stierlin, AnneLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Taschen’s world architecturePublication details: Köln ; New York, 1996Description: volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cmISBN: 3822885614Uniform titles: Islam. English Subject(s): Islamic architecture | Architecture, MedievalLOC classification: NA380
Contents:
v. 1. early architecture from Baghdad to Jerusalem and Cordoba
Subject: This volume is an impressive survey of more than 600 years of Islamic architecture, from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, in a region stretching from the Near and Middle East to Sicily, the Maghreb and Andalusia. It presents masterpieces of Islamic architecture from the peerless Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem to the mysterious Umayyad palaces in the deserts of Syria and Palestine, from the sumptuous residences of the caliphs in Samarra and Saragossa to the Great Mosques of Damascus, Kairouan and Cordoba
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Translated from German

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

v. 1. early architecture from Baghdad to Jerusalem and Cordoba

This volume is an impressive survey of more than 600 years of Islamic architecture, from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, in a region stretching from the Near and Middle East to Sicily, the Maghreb and Andalusia. It presents masterpieces of Islamic architecture from the peerless Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem to the mysterious Umayyad palaces in the deserts of Syria and Palestine, from the sumptuous residences of the caliphs in Samarra and Saragossa to the Great Mosques of Damascus, Kairouan and Cordoba

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