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The Formative Period |
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[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/birth-islam) | 1. Birth of Islam |
[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/vocab-islam) | 2. Vocabulary of Islamic Architecture |
[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/early-mosques) | 3. The Architecture of the Early Mosques |
The Classical Period |
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[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/umayyad) | 4. Umayyad Grandeur: First Imperial Expressions |
[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/abbasids) | 5. The Splendors of the Abbasids |
[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/ifriqiya) | 6. Religious Monuments of the West: Ifriqiya and Spain |
[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/fatimid) | 7. The Fatimid Caliphate: A New Tradition and Old Forms |
[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/iran-mosques) | 8. Mosques of Iran and Central Asia (8th-11th Century) |
The Medieval Period |
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[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/seljuqs) | 9. The Great Seljuqs, the Sunni Revival, and the Four-Iwan Plan |
[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/anatolia) | 10. Anatolia, Iraq, and Syria (11th-13th Century) |
[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/ayyubids) | 11. Architecture of the Ayyubids and Mamluks |
[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/ilkhanids) | 12. Religious Architecture of the Ilkhanids |
[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/muslim-india) | 13. Religious Architecture of the Muslim Dynasties in India (12th-15th Century) |
[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/mamluck) | 14. Late Mamluk Religious Architecture |
[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/timurids) | 15. Religious Architecture of the Timurids |
The Age of the Gunpowder Empires |
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[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/anatolia-turks) | 16. Religious Architecture of Anatolia (14th-15th Century) |
[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/sinan) | 17. Classical Ottoman Architecture: The Age of Sinan |
[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/safavids) | 18. The Maydan-i-Shah in Isfahan, the Safavid Capital |
[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/mughal) | 19. Mughal Mausolea |
The Modern Period |
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[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/baroque) | 20. XIXth Century Religious Architecture |
[](/courses/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/pages/lecture-notes/historicism) | 21. Historicism and Religious Architecture in the Late Twentieth Century |