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288 pages 28 cm Bibliographical references included in "Notes": pages 272-280. "Selected bibliography": pages 281-283 From the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Achaemenids -- Seleucids, Parthians, Sasanians : reassertion of Persian forms -- Early Islam : new purposes -- The Seljuks : structure as beauty -- The meaning and function of Persian decoration -- The Mongols : destruction and grandeur -- The Timurids : refinement and opulence -- The Safavid culmination -- Summary of forms and structural problems

Author

Pope, Arthur Upham, 1881-1969

Publisher

New York, G. Braziller

Published

1965

Language

EN

Subjects

Architecture, Islam, History

Updated

2026-03-24