Islam: From Medina to the Maghreb and from the Indies to Istanbul

by Christopher Tadgell

The Prophet Muhammad - acknowledged by his followers to have been the hand with which God wrote his definitive Word enshrined in the Koran - was born into the Quraishi tribe at Mecca c. 570 and died in Medina in 632. The great religion founded on that Word, which first claimed the submission (Islam) of the Arabs, rapidly expanded across North Africa, into southern Europe and east as far as China. This book examines the architectural tradition which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113803889X
• ISBN13: 9781138038899
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 662 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 8.1" x 8.2"