TY - BOOK AU - Stierlin,Henri TI - ISLAM volume 1: Early Architecture from Baghdad to Cordoba SN - 3822885614 PY - 1996/// CY - New England, MA PB - Taschen KW - Islamic architecture N1 - Include bibligraphical references and index N2 - This volume is an impressive survey of more than six hundred years of Islamic architecture, from the seventh to the thirteenth century, in a region stretching from the Near and Middle East to Sicily, the Maghreb and Andalusia. It presents masterpieces of Islamic architecture from the peerless Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem to the mysterious Umayyad palaces in the deserts of Syria and Palestine, from the sumptuous residences of the caliphs in Samarra and Saragossa to the Great Mosques of Damascus, Kairouan and Cordoba ER -