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Scerrato, Umberto
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Title Islam / Umberto Scerrato
foreword by Richard Ettinghausen.
Publisher London : Cassell
Creation Date 1976
Notes Translated from the Italian.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 188) and index.
Content Origins of Islamic architecture. -- The formative period : the Umayyads. -- Architecture of the Abbasid Empire. -- Disintegration of the Abbasid Empire and birth of the regional schools. -- The Seljuk period. -- The Syrian-Egyptian region under the Ayyubids and Mamluks. -- The Mongol invasion and the Ilkhanid Empire. -- Architecture in the Empire of Tamerlane. -- Safavid Iran. -- Moslem India. -- The Ottoman Empire --. Islam's far west : North Africa and Spain.
Series Monuments of civilization
Extent 192 pages : ill. (chiefly color), map, plans
34 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990031543970205171

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