4.614 | Fall 2002 | Undergraduate

Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures

Lecture Notes

5149thumbnail.jpg

Description:

The Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan (1163-1203). This cylindrical, heavily-ornamented, 65-meter high brick tower is the most remarkable of a group of little-understood towers/minarets spread all over the medieval Turko-Iranian regions from Iraq to India.

Resource Type:
Lecture Notes

Course Info

Instructor
Departments
As Taught In
Fall 2002
Learning Resource Types
Course Introduction
Image Gallery