The art of Islam / Nurhan Atasoy, Afif Bahnassi, Michael Rogers.

Includes index.

Architecture in its environment --Major elements of Islamic architecture --Minarets --Domed spaces --Capitals, columns and arches --Facades, entrances, arcades, courtyards and iwans --Ceramic and marble revetment --Transitional zones in architecture --Screens --Minbars --Mihrabs --Madrasas --Masterpieces of Islamic art --The first golden age : The Umayyads and Early Abbasids --Spain, Morocco and Algeria --The western and central lands of the Islamic world during the high Middle Ages --Anatolia, the Iranian world and Central Asia in the later middle ages --The great empires --Timurid --Ottoman --Safavid --Mughal --The development of Islamic art throughout the world --Sub-Sahara --China --South-East Asia.