The Formative Period |
![Palmyra.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/1003thumbnail.jpg)
| 1. Birth of Islam |
![Minaret.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/3007thumbnail.jpg) | 2. Vocabulary of Islamic Architecture |
![The Mosque of Amru in Fustat.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/3010thumbnail.jpg) | 3. The Architecture of the Early Mosques |
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The Classical Period |
![Dome of the Rock (Qubbat al-Sakhra).](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/1005thumbnail.jpg) | 4. Umayyad Grandeur: First Imperial Expressions |
![The Malwiyya.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/1015thumbnail.jpg) | 5. The Splendors of the Abbasids |
![The Masjid (or Musalla) of Bab Mardum, Toledo.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/1034thumbnail.jpg) | 6. Religious Monuments of the West: Ifriqiya and Spain |
![Al-Azhar Mosque.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/1036thumbnail.jpg) | 7. The Fatimid Caliphate: A New Tradition and Old Forms |
![The Samanid Mausoleum in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/1054thumbnail.jpg) | 8. Mosques of Iran and Central Asia (8th-11th Century) |
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The Medieval Period |
![The Masjid-i Jomeh at Isfahan.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/1059thumbnail.jpg) | 9. The Great Seljuqs, the Sunni Revival, and the Four-Iwan Plan |
![The Madrasa al-Firdaws in Aleppo.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/1074thumbnail.jpg) | 10. Anatolia, Iraq, and Syria (11th-13th Century) |
![The Complex of Sultan Qalawun in Cairo.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/1077thumbnail.jpg) | 11. Architecture of the Ayyubids and Mamluks |
![The Mausoleum of Sultan Oljeïtu at Sultaniyya.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/1085thumbnail.jpg) | 12. Religious Architecture of the Ilkhanids |
![The Tomb of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq at Delhi-Tughluqabad.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/1097thumbnail.jpg) | 13. Religious Architecture of the Muslim Dynasties in India (12th-15th Century) |
![The Mosque of Sultan Hasan.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/1101thumbnail.jpg) | 14. Late Mamluk Religious Architecture |
![The Gur-i-Amir Mausoleum in Samarqand.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/1116thumbnail.jpg) | 15. Religious Architecture of the Timurids |
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The Age of the Gunpowder Empires |
![Yesil Cami (Green Mosque) at Iznik.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/1125thumbnail.jpg) | 16. Religious Architecture of Anatolia (14th-15th Century) |
![The Church of Hagia Sofia (Ayasofia).](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/1133thumbnail.jpg) | 17. Classical Ottoman Architecture: The Age of Sinan |
![The Masjid-i-Shah.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/2004thumbnail.jpg) | 18. The Maydan-i-Shah in Isfahan, the Safavid Capital |
![The Tomb of Humayun in Delhi.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/2005thumbnail.jpg) | 19. Mughal Mausolea |
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The Modern Period |
![The Nuruosmaniye Mosque, Istanbul.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/2024thumbnail.jpg) | 20. XIXth Century Religious Architecture |
![The Corniche Mosque, Jedda, Saudi Arabia.](/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/lecture-notes/2042thumbnail.jpg) | 21. Historicism and Religious Architecture in the Late Twentieth Century |