Yahya Ibn al-Wasiti THE MAQAMAT OF AL-HARIRI From

Yahya Ibn al-Wasiti THE MAQAMAT OF AL-HARIRI From Baghdad, Iraq. 1237. Ink, pigments, and gold on paper, 13 -3/4" × 10 -1/4" (35 × 25 cm). Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Arabic MS. 5847, fol. 18 v [Fig. 09 -01]

THE KAABA, MECCA [Fig. 09 -02]

THE ISLAMIC WORLD [Map 09 -01]

TECHNIQUE: Ornament ablaq masonry

TECHNIQUE: Ornament cut tile

TECHNIQUE: Ornament muqarna

TECHNIQUE: Ornament wooden strapwork

TECHNIQUE: Ornament mosaic

TECHNIQUE: Ornament water

TECHNIQUE: Ornament chini khana

EXTERIOR VIEW (A) AND CUTAWAY DRAWING (B) OF THE DOME OF THE ROCK, JERUSALEM Israel. Begun 691. [Fig. 09 -03 a]

EXTERIOR VIEW (A) AND CUTAWAY DRAWING (B) OF THE DOME OF THE ROCK, JERUSALEM Israel. Begun 691. [Fig. 09 -03 b]

INTERIOR, DOME OF THE ROCK Israel. Begun 691. [Fig. 09 -04]

THE GREAT MOSQUE, KAIROUAN Tunisia. 836 -875. [Fig. 09 -05]

PRAYER HALL, GREAT MOSQUE, CORDOBA Spain. Begun 785/786. [Fig. 09 -06]

PLAN OF THE GREAT MOSQUE Begun 785/786. [Fig. 09 -07]

DOME IN FRONT OF THE MIHRAB, GREAT MOSQUE 965. [Fig. 09 -08]

ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE: Arches

MINBAR From the Kutubiya Mosque, Marrakesh, Morocco. 1125 -1130. Wood and ivory, 12'8" × 11'4" × 2'10" (3. 86 × 3. 46 × 0. 87 m). Badi Palace Museum, Marrakesh. [Fig. 09 -09]

PAGE FROM THE QUR'AN Surah 2: 286 and title of surah 3 in Kufic script. Syria. 9 th century. Black ink, pigments, and gold on vellum, 8 -3/8" × 11 -1/8" (21. 8 × 29. 2 cm). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1937. (37. 99. 2) [Fig. 09 -10]

PLATE WITH KUFIC BORDER From Khurasan. 10 th-12 th century. Earthenware with white and black slip, and lead glaze, diameter 14 -1/2" (33. 8 cm). Musée du Louvre, Paris. [Fig. 09 -11]

LUSTERWARE JAR Iraq. 10 th century. Glazed earthenware with luster, 11 -1/8" × 9 -1/8" (28. 2 × 23. 2 cm). Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. [Fig. 09 -12]

PLAN (A) AND DRAWING OF EXTERIOR (B) OF THE SULTAN HASAN MADRASAMAUSOLEUM-MOSQUE COMPLEX, CAIRO 1356 -1363. [Fig. 09 -13 a]

PLAN (A) AND DRAWING OF EXTERIOR (B) OF THE SULTAN HASAN MADRASAMAUSOLEUM-MOSQUE COMPLEX, CAIRO 1356 -1363. [Fig. 09 -13 b]

QIBLA WALL WITH MIHRAB AND MINBAR Sultan Hasan Madrasa-Mausoleum-Mosque Complex, Cairo. 1356 -1363. [Fig. 09 -14]

A CLOSER LOOK: A Mamluk Glass Oil Lamp by 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki. Cairo, Egypt. c. 1329 -1335. Blown glass, polychrome enamel, and gold. Diameter 9 3/8" (23. 89 cm), height 14" (35. 56 cm). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

COURT OF THE LIONS, ALHAMBRA Granada, Spain. 1354 -1391. [Fig. 09 -15]

MUQARNAS DOME, HALL OF THE ABENCERRAJES, PALACE OF THE LIONS, ALHAMBRA Granada, Spain. 1354 -1391. [Fig. 09 -16]

TILE MOSAIC MIHRAB From the Madrasa Imami, Isfahan, Iran. Founded 1354. Glazed and cut tiles, 11'3" × 9'5 -11/16" (3. 43 × 2. 89 m). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Harris Brisbane Dick Fund. (39. 20). [Fig. 09 -17]

SHAH-I ZINDA FUNERARY COMPLEX Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Late 14 th-15 th century. [Fig. 09 -18]

MINA'I BOWL WITH BAHRAM GUR AND AZADA Iran. 12 th-13 th century. Mina'i ware (stoneware with polychrome in-glaze and overglaze), diameter 8 -1/2" (21. 6 cm). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. [Fig. 09 -19]

Muhammad Ibn al-Zain BAPTISTERY OF ST. LOUIS Syria or Egypt. c. 1300. Brass inlaid with silver and gold, 8 -3/4" × 19 -3/4" (22. 2 × 50. 2 cm). Musée du Louvre, Paris. [Fig. 09 -20]

QUR'AN FRONTISPIECE Cairo. c. 1368. Ink, pigments, and gold on paper, 24" × 18" (61 × 45. 7 cm). National Library, Cairo. MS. 7. [Fig. 09 -21]

Kamal al-Din Bihzad YUSUF FLEEING ZULAYHKA From a copy of the Bustan of Sa'di. Herat, Afghanistan. 1488. Ink and pigments on paper, approx. 12" × 8 -1/2" (30. 5 × 21. 5 cm). Cairo, National Library. (MS Adab Farsi 908, f. 52 v) [Fig. 09 -22]

PLAN (A) AND EXTERIOR VIEW (B) OF THE MOSQUE OF SULTAN SELIM, EDIRNE Western Turkey. 1568 -1575. [Fig. 09 -23 a]

PLAN (A) AND EXTERIOR VIEW (B) OF THE MOSQUE OF SULTAN SELIM, EDIRNE Western Turkey. 1568 -1575. [Fig. 09 -23 b]

INTERIOR, MOSQUE OF SULTAN SELIM [Fig. 09 -24]

BAGHDAD KIOSK ALCOVE Topkapi Palace, Istanbul. 1638. [Fig. 09 -25]

ILLUMINATED TUGRA OF SULTAN SULEYMAN From Istanbul, Turkey. c. 1555 -1560. Ink, paint, and gold on paper, removed from a firman and trimmed to 20 -1/2" × 25 -3/8" (52 × 64. 5 cm). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1938. (38. 149. 1). [Fig. 09 -26]

Sultan Muhammad THE "COURT OF GAYUMARS" From the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp (fol. 20 v). Tabriz, Iran. c. 1525 -1535. Ink, pigments, and gold on paper, page size 18 -1/2" × 12 -1/2" (47 × 31. 8 cm). Aga Khan Museum, Toronto. (AKM 165) [Fig. 09 -27]

PLAN (A) AND EXTERIOR VIEW (B) OF THE MASJID-I SHAH, ISFAHAN Iran. 1611 -1638. [Fig. 09 -28 a]

PLAN (A) AND EXTERIOR VIEW (B) OF THE MASJID-I SHAH, ISFAHAN Iran. 1611 -1638. [Fig. 09 -28 b]

GARDEN CARPET The so-called Wagner Carpet. Iran. 17 th century. Wool pile, cotton warp, cotton and wool weft, 17'5' × 13'11" (5. 31 × 4. 25 m). Burrell Collection, Glasgow. [Fig. 09 -29]

TECHNIQUE: Carpet Making

Hasan Fathy MOSQUE AT NEW GOURNA Luxor, Egypt. 1945 -1947. Gouache on paper, 22 -1/2" × 17 -7/8" (52. 8 × 45. 2 cm). Collection of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Geneva, Switzerland. [Fig. 09 -30]

Paolo Portoghesi, Vittorio Gigliotti, and Sami Mousawi ISLAMIC MOSQUE AND CULTURAL CENTER, ROME. 1984 -1992. The prayer hall, 197' × 131' (60 × 40 m), large central dome (65 1/2'; 20 m in diameter) [Fig. 09 -31]