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Guy Le Strange, The Round City in the Time of Mansur, Oxford University Press, 1900

A depiction of Baghdad shortly after its foundation in the eighth century CE, when it was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. An interior cutaway of…

Tags: Abbasid, Baghdad, Iraq, Mansur, Palace, Walls

SEIER+SEIER, Interior of the Great Mosque of Damascus, Flickr, April 2, 2004

An interior shot of the Great Mosque of Damascus (or Umayyad Mosque), in modern-day Syria, with the Shrine of St. John the Baptist visible in the…

Tags: Damascus, Islam, Mosque, Shrine, St. John the Baptist, Syria, Umayyad

Staircase Martyrium in Caelian Hill House

Oleg Grabar, Early Islamic Art, 650-1100

Pamela Berger, The Crescent on the Temple: The Dome of the Rock as Image of the Ancient Jewish Sanctuary

Sacred (Further Reading, Leone)

Sacred (Further Reading, Dignas and Smith)

Sacred (Further Reading)

Andrew Shiva, al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, 14 November 2013

Tags: Islam, Jerusalem, Mosque, Temple Mount, Umayyad