:From Baghdad to Cordoba : Early Architecture from the 7th to the 13th Century
/ Henri Stierlin
; photographs, Anne and Henri Stierlin
Keoln ; New York
: Taschen
, 2009.
224 p.
: col. ill., col. map, plans
(Taschen's World Architecture)
Translated from German
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Bibliography
Index
Introduction : the origins of Islam - The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem - The Great Mosque of the Umayyads of Damascus - Umayyad palaces - Umayyad splendor in Cordoba - The grandeur of the Abbasid Caliphate - The diversity of Muslim Egypt - The disintegration of the far western empire - Upheavals in the near east - Conclusion : new concepts of space