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The Formative Period | |
| 1. Birth of Islam |
 | 2. Vocabulary of Islamic Architecture |
 | 3. The Architecture of the Early Mosques |
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) |
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 |
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 |
The Modern Period | |
 | 20. XIXth Century Religious Architecture |
 | 21. Historicism and Religious Architecture in the Late Twentieth Century |
