The Formative Period |
| 1. Birth of Islam |
| 2. Vocabulary of Islamic Architecture |
| 3. The Architecture of the Early Mosques |
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The Classical Period |
| 4. Umayyad Grandeur: First Imperial Expressions |
| 5. The Splendors of the Abbasids |
| 6. Religious Monuments of the West: Ifriqiya and Spain |
| 7. The Fatimid Caliphate: A New Tradition and Old Forms |
| 8. Mosques of Iran and Central Asia (8th-11th Century) |
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The Medieval Period |
| 9. The Great Seljuqs, the Sunni Revival, and the Four-Iwan Plan |
| 10. Anatolia, Iraq, and Syria (11th-13th Century) |
| 11. Architecture of the Ayyubids and Mamluks |
| 12. Religious Architecture of the Ilkhanids |
| 13. Religious Architecture of the Muslim Dynasties in India (12th-15th Century) |
| 14. Late Mamluk Religious Architecture |
| 15. Religious Architecture of the Timurids |
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The Age of the Gunpowder Empires |
| 16. Religious Architecture of Anatolia (14th-15th Century) |
| 17. Classical Ottoman Architecture: The Age of Sinan |
| 18. The Maydan-i-Shah in Isfahan, the Safavid Capital |
| 19. Mughal Mausolea |
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The Modern Period |
| 20. XIXth Century Religious Architecture |
| 21. Historicism and Religious Architecture in the Late Twentieth Century |