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Paperback The Minaret Book

ISBN: 1474437222

ISBN13: 9781474437226

The Minaret

This beautifully illustrated history depicts the origin and development of the most visible element of Islamic architecture: the minaret. The argument is iconoclastic - 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, was actually invented some two centuries later to be a universal symbol of the presence of Islam.

Originally published in 1989, this...

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