| 1. |
right:
Kufic bowl, glazed earthenware, c. 9-10th cent. CE, Samarkan, Uzbekistan
left: Koran in Kufic script, gold and ink on parchment, c. 8-9th cent.
CE, Syria or Iraq. |
| 2. |
Kaaba,
7th cent. onwards, Mecca, Saudi Arabia. |
| 3. |
Plan
of Mohammed’s house, 7th cent., Medina, Saudi Arabia. |
| 4. |
map
of Islamic conquests. |
| 5. |
plan
and photo of the Dome of the Rock, 691 CE, Jerusalem (Umayyad). |
| 6. |
left:
interior of the Dome of the Rock right: detail of mosaic, Dome of
the Rock. |
| 7. |
capital
from the church of San Vitale, 6th cent., Ravenna, Italy (Byzantine). |
| 8. |
qibla
of Sultan Hasan mosque, 1356-1363 CE, Cairo, Egypt. |
| 9. |
Great
Mosque at Samarra (Al-Mutawakkil), baked brick, 847-861 CE, Samarra,
Iraq (Abbasid). |
| 10. |
exterior
view of the Great Mosque and Cathedral of Cordoba, c. 784 onwards. |
| 11. |
left:
plan right: hypostyle hall, Great Mosque of Cordoba, 784-6 CE with
later additions, Ummayad Spain (Andalusian). |
| 12. |
left:
interior dome of Great Mosque of Cordoba right: mihrab of Great Mosque
of Cordoba. |
| 13. |
pyxis
of al-Mughira, ivory, 968 CE, near Cordoba (Andalusian). |
| 14. |
court
of the lions- Alhambra Palace, 1238-1358, Granada, Spain (Nasrid). |
| 15. |
griffin
incense burner, bronze, 11-12th cent, Egypt, (Mamluk). |
| 16. |
coronation
mantle of Roger II, silk with pearls and gold thread, 1134, Palermo,
Sicily. |
| 17. |
Seduction
of Yusuf, illuminated manunscript, 1488, Herat, Afghanistan (Timurid). |
| 18. |
folio
from Haft Paykar (Nizami), illuminated manuscript, 15th cent., Herat,
Afghanistan (Timurid). |
| 19. |
Selimiye
Mosque, 1570-4, Sinan, Edirne, Turkey (Ottoman). |
| 20. |
interior
of Selimiye Mosque. |
| 21. |
illuminated
tughra of Suleyman the Magnificent, c. 1520, ink on parchment (Ottoman). |
| 22. |
Masjid-i Jami (Great Mosque),
11-18th cent., Isfahan, Iran (Ilkhanid-Timurid). |
| 23. |
mihrab,
glazed and painted tiles, 1354, Isfahan, Iran (Ilkhanid-Timurid). |
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