The Journal of the American Oriental Society, January 1st, 2005
An Outline of Islamic Architecture. By RAFIQUE ALI JAIRAZBHOY. Rpt. Oxford: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2003. Pp. 216, maps, illus. $19.95 (paper).
Oxford University Press's recent reprint of R. A. Jairazbhoy's An Outline of Islamic Architecture (first published in 1972) provides readers with a rather antiquated summary of Islamic architecture in six global regions: a single unit on early architecture in Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, and "Mesopotamia," and individual units on Spain, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, and India. Although the reprint is billed as a textbook for schools and colleges, it has been sup...
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