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• Minbars
• Mosques

• Arab architecture
• Architecture, Arab
• Architecture, Islamic
• Architecture, Moorish
• Architecture, Muslim
• Architecture, Saracenic
• Moorish architecture
• Muslim architecture
• Saracenic architecture

• Churasanische Baudenkmäler; Mit einem Beitrage von Max van Berchem (only volume known to be published, in German; Berlin: D. Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), 1918), by Ernst Diez, contrib. by Max van Berchem (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1914), by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; et al., c1998), contrib. by Jonathan Bloom, Aḥmad Tawfīq, Stefano Carboni, Jack Soultanian, Antoine M. Wilmering, Mark D. Minor, Andrew Zawacki, and El Mostafa Hbibi (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; et al., c1998), contrib. by Jonathan Bloom, Aḥmad Tawfīq, Stefano Carboni, Jack Soultanian, Antoine M. Wilmering, Mark D. Minor, Andrew Zawacki, and El Mostafa Hbibi (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; et al., c1998), contrib. by Jonathan Bloom, Aḥmad Tawfīq, Stefano Carboni, Jack Soultanian, Antoine M. Wilmering, Mark D. Minor, Andrew Zawacki, and El Mostafa Hbibi (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Legacies for the Future: Contemporary Architecture in Islamic Societies, ed. by Cynthia C. Davidson (PDF with commentary at archnet.org)

• Architecture and Identity (1983), ed. by Robert Powell (PDF with commentary at archnet.org)

• Formal Structure in Islamic Architecture of Iran and Turkistan, by Klaus Herdeg (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down to "Child Publications" for chapter links and downloads))

• Formal Structure in Islamic Architecture of Iran and Turkistan, by Klaus Herdeg (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down to "Child Publications" for chapter links and downloads))

• The Architecture of the Mamluk City of Tripoli (1983), by Hayat Salam-Liebich (PDF at archnet.org)

• Architecture in Pakistan, by Kamil Khan Mumtaz (PDF at archnet.org)

• Architecture Beyond Architecture (1995), ed. by Cynthia C. Davidson and Ismail Serageldin (PDF with commentary at archnet.org)
• Architecture for a Changing World (1992), ed. by James Steele (PDF with commentary at archnet.org)
• Architecture in Continuity (1985), ed. by Sherban Cantacuzino (PDF with commentary at archnet.org)
• Architecture and Community (1983), ed. by Renata Holod and Darl Rastorfer (PDF with commentary at archnet.org)

• Expressions of Islam in Buildings (1990), ed. by Robert Powell (PDF with commentary at archnet.org)
• Architecture as Symbol and Self-Identity (1980), ed. by Jonathan G. Katz (PDF at archnet.org)
• Toward an Architecture in the Spirit of Islam, ed. by Renata Holod (PDF at archnet.org)
• Places of Public Gathering in Islam (1980), ed. by Linda Safran (PDF at archnet.org)
• Architectural Knowledge and Cultural Diversity (1999), ed. by William O'Reilly (PDF at archnet.org)

• Conservation as Cultural Survival (1980), ed. by Renata Holod (PDF at archnet.org)

• The Expanding Metropolis: Coping with the Urban Growth of Cairo (1985), ed. by Ahmet Evin (PDF at archnet.org)

• The Hassan Fathy Collection: A Catalogue of Visual Documents at the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (1989), by James Steele (PDF with commentary at archnet.org)

• Dictionary of Islamic Architecture (c1996), by Andrew Petersen (PDF at archnet.org)

• Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction, by Doris Behrens-Abouseif (PDF at archnet.org)

• Some Cairo Mosques, and Their Founders (London: Constable and Co., 1921), by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Architecture of the Mamluk City of Tripoli (1983), by Hayat Salam-Liebich (PDF at archnet.org)

• Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Zeynep Çelik (HTML at UC Press)

• Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Zeynep Çelik (HTML at UC Press)

• Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1914), by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Kirchen und Moscheen in Armenien und Kurdistan (in German; Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1913), by Walter Bachmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Kirchen und Moscheen in Armenien und Kurdistan (in German; Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1913), by Walter Bachmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Architects of Buddhist Leisure: Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia's Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press 2016), by Justin McDaniel (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Sculptured Tope on an Old Stone at Dras, Ladak (London: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1882), by William Simpson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Heart's Kingdom, by Maria Thompson Daviess, illust. by W. B. King (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Built of Living Stones: Art, Architecture, and Worship (2000), by National Conference of Catholic Bishops (HTML at usccb.org)
• Mediaeval Church Vaulting (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1915), by Clarence Ward (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture (London: W. Heinemann, 1896), by E. P. Evans (PDF with commentary at bestiary.ca)
• Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1896), by E. P. Evans (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Symbolism of Animals and Birds Represented in English Church Architecture (New York: McBride, Nast and Co., 1913), by Arthur H. Collins
  • PDF files at bestiary.ca
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Annals of Arley (Kidderminster: Printed by W. Hepworth, 1914), by Hellier Randall Mayo
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Church Treasury of History, Custom, Folk-Lore, Etc. (London: W. Andrews and Co., 1898), ed. by William Andrews
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Some Old Devon Churches: Their Rood Screens, Pulpits, Fonts, etc. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co., ca. 1908), by John Stabb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquities and Curiosities of the Church (London: W. Andrews and Co., 1897), ed. by William Andrews (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture: Chiefly Selected From Examples of the 12th and 13th Centuries in France and Italy (London: Day and Son, 1862), by W. Eden Nesfield (page images at HathiTrust)

• Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture: Chiefly Selected From Examples of the 12th and 13th Centuries in France and Italy (London: Day and Son, 1862), by W. Eden Nesfield (page images at HathiTrust)

• Byzantine Mosaics in Greece: Hosios Lucas and Daphni (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931), by Ernst Diez and Otto Demus (page images at HathiTrust)

• Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture: Chiefly Selected From Examples of the 12th and 13th Centuries in France and Italy (London: Day and Son, 1862), by W. Eden Nesfield (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mosaic Tabernacle, in its Arrangement and Worship, as the Symbol of the Christian Church (New York: J. Moffet, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tabernacle and its Furniture (London: B. L. Green, 1849), by John Kitto, illust. by W. Dickes
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Tabernacle: or, The Gospel According to Moses (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, c1865), by George Junkin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Die Stiftshütte: Der Tempel in Jerusalem und der Tempelplatz der Jetztzeit (in German; Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1896), by Conrad Schick
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.