Islamic

1. Islamic Architecture: An Appreciation  (site info) Sakar Datoo explains the development of Islamic architecture, with references. Part of Ismaili Web. http://www.amaana.org/tajik/sakarchit.htm 2. Early Islamic Tiles  (site info) An on-line exhibition of 14th-17th century decorative tiles collected in 1880-86 by Lockwood de Forest. Scholarly comments by Anthony Slayter-Ralph. Biography of de Forest. http://www.anthonyralphgallery.com 3. Islamic Architecture at the MIT Rotch Library  (site info) Textual and visual resources on Islamic architecture around the world. Includes a collection of images from the Aga Khan Visual Archives. http://baron-ochs.mit.edu/agakhan/ 4. Wonders of Az-Zahra and other Andalusian Palaces  (site info) Essay by Dr. A. Zahoor on the extravagant pleasure palaces built in the 10th century by Islamic potentates in Spain. http://cyberistan.org/islamic/zahra.html 5. Andalusian Architecture  (site info) Nofal Ahmad Al-Abdulali, a Kuwaiti student at the University of Kansas, provides an illustrated history of the Islamic conquest of Spain and the monumental buildings that sprang from it. http://www.grapevine.net/~suede/ 1-5 of 13. Next »