Architecture in its environment -- Major elements of Islamic architecture -- Minarets -- Domed spaces -- Capitals, columns and arches -- Facades, entrances, arcades, courtyards and iwans -- Ceramic and marble revetment -- Transitional zones in architecture -- Screens -- Minbars -- Mihrabs -- Madrasas -- Masterpieces of Islamic art -- The first golden age : The Umayyads and Early Abbasids -- Spain, Morocco and Algeria -- The western and central lands of the Islamic world during the high Middle Ages -- Anatolia, the Iranian world and Central Asia in the later middle ages -- The great empires -- Timurid -- Ottoman -- Safavid -- Mughal -- The development of Islamic art throughout the world -- Sub-Sahara -- China -- South-East Asia.
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