The Story of Islamic Architecture
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Yeomans, Richard
4to. xi 240 pp; colour frontis. half-title, title, profusely illustrated in colour & b/w plates, plans, cloth in d/w, biblio, copy in mint condition, new, Garnet Publishing, Reading, 1999.
Despite its antiquity, Richard Yeomans believes that the activity observed in the mosque today bears witness to an extraordinary continuity of worship and social behaviour reaching back nearly 1400 years to the Prophet Muhammad's own mosque in Medina. Using a broad historical narrative to explain the religious, social and political influences that shape the Islamic architectural form, The Story of Islamic Architecture reveals an architectural splendour that despite its diversity has coherence and continuity.
