Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture

Name: Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture
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Author: Gertrude Lowthian Bell

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Excerpt from Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohanmadan Architecture:I have attempted in this book to bring together the materials, so far as they are known, which bear upon the earliest phases of Mohammedan architecture, to consider the circumstances under which it arose and the roots from which it sprang. No development of civilization, or of the arts which serve and adorn civilization, has burst full-fledged from the forehead of the god; and architecture, which is the first and most permanent of the arts, reflects with singular fidelity the history of its creators. Not only ...

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PALACE AND MOSQUE AT UKHAIḌIR
PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I UKHAIḌIR
CHAPTER II QṢAIR, MUDJḌAH, AND ‘AṬSHÂN
QṢAIR
MUDJḌAH
‘AṬSHÂN
CHAPTER III QAṢR-I-SHÎRÎN
THE PALACE OF KHUSRAU
CHEHÂR QAPÛ
CHAPTER IV GENESIS OF THE EARLY MOHAMMADAN PALACE
CHAPTER V THE FAÇADE
CHAPTER VI THE MOSQUE
CHAPTER VII THE DATE OF UKHAIḌIR
SUBJECT INDEX
INDEX OF NAMES
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