Bibliography of Essential Studies of Islamic Architecture
compiled by
Professor Gulru Necipoglu
Harvard University
(General surveys marked with asterisk plus regional surveys)
Asher, Catherine. Architecture of Mughal India. Cambridge, 1992.
Barrucand, Marianne, and A. Bednorz. Moorish Architecture in Andalusia. Cologne, 1992.
*Blair, Sheila S., and Jonathan Bloom. The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250-1800. Pelican History of Art. New Haven, 1994.
*Creswell, K. A. C. A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture. Rev. and suppl. by James W. Allen. Aldershot, 1989.
*Creswell, K.A.C. Early Muslim Architecture. 2 vols. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1969.
Creswell, K. A. C. The Muslim Architecture of Egypt. 2 vols. New York, 1979.
*Ettinghausen, Richard, and Oleg Grabar. The Art and Architecture of Islam, 650-1250. Pelican History of Art. Harmondsworth, UK and New York, 1987.
*Frishman, Martin, and Hasan-Uddin Khan, eds. The Mosque: History, Architectural Development and Regional Diversity. London & New York, 1994.
Garlake, Peter S. The Early Islamic Architecture of the East African Coast. British Institute of History and Archaeology in East Africa. Nairobi, 1966.
Golombek, L., & D. Wilber. The Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan. 2 vols. Princeton, 1988.
Goodwin, Godfrey. A History of Ottoman Architecture. Rev ed. New York, 1992.
*Grube, Ernst J. Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning, With a Complete Survey of Key Monuments. Ed. George Michell. London, 1978; reprt. 1984.
*Hillenbrand, Robert. Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning. Edinburgh and New York, 1994.
Koch, Ebba. Mughal Architecture: An Outline of Its History and Development (1526-1858). Munich, 1991.
Kuran, Aptullah. Sinan, the Grand Old Master of Ottoman Architecture. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Turkish Studies, and Istanbul: Ada Press, 1987.
Meinecke, Michael. Die mamlukische Architektur in Ägypten und Syrien (648/1250 bis 923/1517). 2 vols. Glückstadt, 1992.
Michell, George, and Mark Zebrowski. Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates. Cambridge, 1999.
Necipoglu, Gülru. The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture. Santa Monica, CA, 1995.
OKane, Bernard. Timurid Architecture in Khurasan. Costa Mesa, CA, 1987.
Pope, Arthur Upham. A Survey of Persian Art. 3rd ed. Ashiya, 1977 (see vol.2 on architecture).
Prussin, L. Hatumere. Islamic Design in West Africa. Berkeley, 1986.
Sarre, F., & E. Herzfeld. Archäologische Reise im Euphrat- und Tigris-gebiet. 4 vols. Berlin, 1911-20.
Wilber, Donald N. The Architecture of Islamic Iran: the Il Khanid Period. Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology, 29, Oriental Studies, 17. Princeton, NJ, 1955.
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