:From Baghdad to Cordoba : Early Architecture from the 7th to the 13th Century
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Henri Stierlin
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
; photographs, Anne and Henri Stierlin
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Keoln ; New York
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: Taschen
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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224 p.
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: col. ill., col. map, plans
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(Taschen's World Architecture)
GENERAL NOTES
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Translated from German
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Print
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Bibliography
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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