Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Preface xv
5. CHAPTER ONE. Mughal Tilework: Derivative or Original? 1
6. CHAPTER TWO. Architecture and Court Cultures of the Fourteenth Century 28
7. CHAPTER THREE. The Mausoleum of Yayha al-Shabih Revisited (with Bahia Shehab) 60
8. CHAPTER FOUR. The Mosques of Egypt: An Introduction 73
9. CHAPTER FIVE. Residential Architecture of the Darb Zubayda 133
10. CHAPTER SIX. The Design of Cairo’s Masonry Domes 155
11. CHAPTER SEVEN. James Wild and the Mosque of Bashtak, Cairo 184
12. CHAPTER EIGHT. The Great Mosque of Hama Redux 206
13. CHAPTER NINE. Ayyubid Architecture in Cairo 235
14. CHAPTER 10. The Nine-bay Plan in Islamic Architecture: Its Origin, Development and Meaning 258
15. CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Arboreal Aesthetic: Landscape, Painting and Architecture from Mongol Iran to Mamluk Egypt 346
16. CHAPTER TWELVE. Domestic and Religious Architecture in Cairo: Mutual Influences 375
17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Ziyāda of the Mosque of al-Ḥākim and the Development of the Ziyāda in Islamic Architecture 408
18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Mosque 434
19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Monumentality in Mamluk and Mongol Art and Architecture 441
20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN. The Madrasa of Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī and its Tiled Miḥrāb (with Laila Ibrahim) 470
21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. The Rise of the Minaret 493
22. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. Review of Michael Hamilton Burgoyne and Donald Richards, Mamluk Jerusalem: An Architectural Study 515
23. CHAPTER NINETEEN. Widening the Horizons for the Study of Islamic Architecture 520
24. Index 532