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The Formative Period
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1. Birth of Islam
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2. Vocabulary of Islamic Architecture
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3. The Architecture of the Early Mosques
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The Classical Period
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4. Umayyad Grandeur: First Imperial Expressions
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5. The Splendors of the Abbasids
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6. Religious Monuments of the West: Ifriqiya and Spain
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7. The Fatimid Caliphate: A New Tradition and Old Forms
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8. Mosques of Iran and Central Asia (8th-11th Century)
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The Medieval Period
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9. The Great Seljuqs, the Sunni Revival, and the Four-Iwan Plan
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10. Anatolia, Iraq, and Syria (11th-13th Century)
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11. Architecture of the Ayyubids and Mamluks
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12. Religious Architecture of the Ilkhanids
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13. Religious Architecture of the Muslim Dynasties in India (12th-15th Century)
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14. Late Mamluk Religious Architecture
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15. Religious Architecture of the Timurids
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The Age of the Gunpowder Empires
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16. Religious Architecture of Anatolia (14th-15th Century)
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17. Classical Ottoman Architecture: The Age of Sinan
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18. The Maydan-i-Shah in Isfahan, the Safavid Capital
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19. Mughal Mausolea
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The Modern Period
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20. XIXth Century Religious Architecture
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21. Historicism and Religious Architecture in the Late Twentieth Century
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