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Dubai Architecture & Design (Architecture & Design Books)
Syria: A Historical and Architectural Guide
Islamic Architecture
The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250-1800 (The Yale University Press Pelican Histor)
Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250
Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning
A History of Ottoman Architecture
Islamic Art and Architecture (The World of Art)
Islamic Art & Architecture: The System of Geometric Design
Arts of the City Victorious: Islamic Art and Architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt
Treasures of Islam: Artistic Glories of the Muslim World
The Dome of the Rock
Arts of the City Victorious: Islamic Art and Architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt
Moorish Style
Islamic Art and Architecture: From Isfahan to the Taj Mahal
Oriental Treasures in the Mediterranean: From Damascus to Granada (Timeless Treasures)
Islamic Architecture In Cairo: An Introduction
Arabian Design
The Architecture of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul (Dumbarton Oaks Studies)
The Islamic Design Module in Latin America: Proportionality and the Techniques of Neo-Mudejar Architecture
Dictionary of Islamic Architecture
Venice & the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 1100-1500
Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World (Muqarnas An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, Vol 16)
Contemporary Architecture in the Arab States: Renaissance of a Region
Hassan Fathy (Architectural Monographs No 13)
Patterns of Stylistic Changes in Islamic Architecture: Local Traditions Versus Migrating Artists (Hagop Kevorkian Series on Near Eastern Art and Civilization)
Fabled Cities of Central Asia: Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva
Bayt-al-Maqdis: Part II: Jerusalem and Early Islam (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art)
Sultans and Mosques: The Early Muslim Architecture of Bangladesh
Timurid Architecture in Khurasan (Islamic art and architecture)
Bukhara--The Eastern Dome of Islam
The Transformation of Islamic Art During the Sunni Revival (Publications on the Near East, University of Washington)
African Architecture: Evolution and Transformation
Architecture and Polyphony: Building in the Islamic World Today
Gregor Schneider: Cubes. Art in the Age of Global Terrorism
Doors of the Kingdom
A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine: Volume I (British Academy Monographs in Archaeology)
Islam: Early Architecture from Baghdad to Jerusalem and Cordoba (World Architecture)
Turkey: From the Seljuks to the Ottomans (Taschen s World Architecture)
Geometric Patterns from Islamic Art & Architecture
The Minarets of Cairo
Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture
Early Persian Tilework: The Medieval Flowering of Kashi
Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture (Muqarnas)
The Story of Islamic Architecture
Architecture Beyond Architecture: Creativity and Social Transformations in Islamic Cultures the 1995 Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Islam
Arabic-Islamic Cities
Architecture for Islamic Societies Today
Arquitectura imaginaria. Al-Azrak, el Palacio Azul (Imaginary Architecture. Al Azrak, The Blue Palace)
Bhadresvar: The Oldest Islamic Monuments in India (Studies in Islamic Art and Architecture, Vol 2)
A Bibliography of the Architecture, Arts, and Crafts of Islam, Supplement II
Building for Tomorrow: The Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Community and Unity
Coral Buildings Of Suakin
Design and Color in Islamic Architecture: Eight Centuries of the Tile-Maker s Art
Early Islamic Architecture of the Desert: A Bedouin Station in Eastern Jordan
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Firuzabad: Palace City of the Deccan (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art)
Impressions of Arabia: Architecture and Frescoes of the Asir Region
The Islamic Heritage of Bengal (Protection of the Cultural Heritage Research Paper, No 1)
Le Mihrab: Dans L Architecture Et LA Religion Musulmanes : Actes Du Colloque International Tenu a Paris En Mai 1980 Publies Et Pourvus D Une Etude D
The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana (Muqarnas Supplement) (Muqarnas Supplement)
A Monumental Manifestation of the Shi`ite Faith in Late Twelfth-Century Iran: The Case of the Gunbad-i `Alawiyan, Hamadan (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art)
Monuments (Incredible India)
Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture (Muqarnas)
Muslim Architecture of the Iberian Peninsula: Eastern and Western Sources for Hispano-Islamic Building Arts
Nishapur: Some Early Islamic Buildings and Their Decoration/E0058P
North Africa: Islamic Architecture
Ottoman Turkey: Islamic Architecture
The Persian Bazaar: Veiled Space of Desire
Qasr Kharana in the Transjordan
The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt
Sarvistan: A Study in Early Iranian Architecture (Monographs on the Fine Arts)
Sinan: Architect of Suleyman the Magnificent and the Ottoman Golden Age
Splendours of an Islamic World: The Art and Architecture of the Mamluks
Studies in Arabian Architecture (Collected Studies, No Cs455)
The Tombs of the Kalhora Chiefs at Hyderabad
The Topkapi Scroll -- Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (Sketchbooks & Albums)
Architecture and Community: Building in the Islamic World Today (Aga Khan Award Series)
Islamic Monuments in Cairo: A Practical Guide
Bistam, Iran: The Architecture, Setting, and Patronage of an Islamic Shrine (Studies in the Fine Arts: Art Patronage, No 5)
Half the World: The Social Architecture of Safavid Isfahan, 1590-1722 (Islamic Art and Architecture Series, V. 9)
Medieval Tomb Towers of Iran: An Iconographical Study (Islamic Art & Architecture, Vol 2)
The Art and Architecture of the Islamic World
The Art of the Saljugs in Iran and Anatolia: Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Edinburgh in 1982 (Islamic Art and Architecture, No 4)
Beyond the Architecture of Death: The Shrine of the Shah-I Zinda in Samarqand (Islamic Art & Architecture , No 7)
The Islamic Baths of Palestine (British Academy Monographs in Archaeology)
Formal Structure In Islamic Architecture
The Garden of the Mosques: Hafiz Huseyin Al-Ayvansarayi s Guide to the Muslim Monuments of Ottoman Istanbul (Muqarnas Supplement)


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