MUSLIM ARCHITECTUR!] FROM THE ADVENT OF ISLAM TO THE FA OF THE MAMLUKE@ EMPIRE IN EGY BY | SHEIKH AHMED eG al otefianat ite Condon, Senior ondon, etc. et THE ACADEMY OF ORIENTAL ARTS, LAHCPage Line 4 5 19 «(12 2% ou 28 «20 80 15 82 3 7% % ll 91 22 apse Prophet ERRATA Read indicated dome was the introduction Fergusson makrah Le Bon Gustave Khilafat For aspe Phropet represented drum was by the introduction Furgusson makrukh Gustave Le Bon Khalifat Please read ‘ spandrels ’ as ‘spendrills’ wherever it occurs. ——— = =—=_ COPY RIGHT BY THE AUTHOR Printed in India by Mirza Mohammad Sadiq at the Ripon inti * and Block making by Printing Press, Bull Road, Lahore, and Bloc! J M. Mohammad Sharif, Photo Art Co., Lahore Panjab.CONTENTS PAGE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _ vn vi PREFACE... : oa we ix INTRODUCTION a ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE 7 we E THE HOLY KAABA AT MECCA ve w 10 THE FIRST MOSQUE AT MEDINA 18 THE EFFECT OF HAJ ON MUSLIM ARCHITECTURE 17 EVOLUTION OF THE MOSQUE JAMI'_... 18 DIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF MUSLIM ARCHITECTURE 20 THE MOSQUE AT KUFA i . we 22 HARAM ASH-SHARIF _ 7 ary THE DOME OF THE ROCK : we 8 THE DOME OF THE CHAIN... 7 wa 88 MASJID AL-AQSA 7 we we 84 THE MOSQUE AT FUSTAT wo a 88 SIDI-UQBA AT QAIRWAN _ 7 we 41 THE MOSQUE JAMI‘, DAMASCUS oo 46 THE FALL OF THE UMMAYYADS AND THE RISE OF THE ABBASIDE KHILAFAT AT DAMASCUS... 55 THE RISE OF THE UMMAYYADS IN SPAIN 58 INTRODUCTION OF THE HORSE-SHOE ARCH IN SPAIN THE MOSQUE AL-JAMI:, CORDOBA THE RISE OF BAGHDAD THE MOSQUE OF SAMARA ose 14 THE MOSQUE OF ABU DULAF . . "7 THE MOSQUE OF IBN TULUN .. 79 60 62 68 THE FALL OF THE TULUNIDES IN EGYPT AND THE ABBASIDE KHILAFAT IN BAGHDAD... 88 JAMI‘ AL-AZHAR, CAIRO oe we ae 92 THE MOSQUE OF AL-HAKIM ... ae w. 98 THE MOSQUE OF AL-JUYUSHI ... on o. 110 Iv