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The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250–1800. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-06465-0. Blessing, Patricia (2014). Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rūm, 1240–1330. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-4724-2406-8. Bloom, Jonathan M.; Blair, Sheila (2009). The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art ...
Islamic architecture comprises the architectural styles of buildings associated with Islam. It encompasses both secular and religious styles from the early history of Islam to the present day. The Islamic world encompasses a wide geographic area historically ranging from western Africa and Europe to eastern Asia.
Their architecture was heavily influenced by older antique (Roman and Byzantine) architecture in the region as well as by contemporary Abbasid architecture in the east. [1] The Aghlabid period is also distinguished by a relatively large number of monuments that have survived to the present day, a situation unusual for early Islamic architecture ...
Due to the extent of the Islamic conquests, Islamic architecture encompasses a wide range of architectural styles from the foundation of Islam (7th century) to the present day. Early Islamic architecture was influenced by Roman, Byzantine, Persian, Mesopotamian architecture and all other lands which the Early Muslim conquests conquered in the ...
Ottoman and Anatolian architecture of this era thus absorbed architectural ideas from Timurid architecture, Mamluk architecture, and older Islamic monuments in these regions. [ 18 ] One of the early Ottoman stylistic distinctions that emerged was a tradition of designing more complete façades in front of mosques, especially in the form of a ...
Umayyad architecture developed in the Umayyad Caliphate between 661 and 750, primarily in its heartlands of Syria and Palestine. It drew extensively on the architecture of older Middle Eastern and Mediterranean civilizations including the Sassanian Empire and especially the Byzantine Empire , but introduced innovations in decoration and form.
The mausoleum is considered one of the iconic examples of early Islamic architecture [3] and is known as the oldest funerary building of Central Asian architecture. [4] The Samanids established their de facto independence from the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad and ruled over parts of modern Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan.
Architecture was classified in the field of practical geometry in the early Islamic period, and building projects always involve a muhandis (geometer). [5] In addition, no clear border was established between science and craft; [ 5 ] thus, the craftsmen usually followed the mathematicians’ principles and guidelines directly.