Previous work with same title published in 1984 with far smaller scope and less attention to architecture.

This history of Mamluk architecture spans three centuries and examines the monuments of the Mamluks in their social, political and urban context, during the per

Walks the visitor around two hundred of the city's most interesting Islamic monuments

Bloom reveals that the Minaret, long understood to have been invented in the early years of Islam as the place from which the muezzin gives the call to prayer,