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• Expressions of Islam in Buildings (1990), ed. by Robert Powell (PDF at archnet.org)

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

• The Philosophy of Symbiosis (14-chapter version, ca. 1994), by Kishō Kurokawa (HTML in Japan)
• Imperial Matter: Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Lori Khatchadourian
  • multiple formats with commentary at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and Its Present Condition (based on first and second editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994), by Hermann Muthesius, ed. by Stanford Anderson (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers Under French Rule (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Zeynep Çelik (HTML at UC Press)

• Brokers of Modernity: East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019), by Martin Kohlrausch (HTML at Project MUSE)

• Brokers of Modernity: East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019), by Martin Kohlrausch (HTML at Project MUSE)

• Passages: Explorations of the Contemporary City (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2004), by Graham Livesey (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Designs on the Public: The Private Lives of New York's Public Spaces (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2007), by Kristine F. Miller (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Amps: Architecture_Media_Politics_Society (2012-) (full serial archives)

• The Via Gabina Villas: Sites 10, 11, and 13, ed. by Walter M. Widrig (illustrated HTML at Rice)

• Exploring the Architecture of Place in America's Farmers Markets (Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Press, c2020), by Kathryn Clarke Albright (HTML and Epub with commentary at University Cincinnati Press)

• Architecture for Islamic Societies Today (1994), ed. by James Steele (PDF at archnet.org)
• Faith and the Built Environment: Architecture and Behavior in Islamic Cultures, ed. by Suha Ozkan (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down inset to "Associated documents" for chapter links and downloads))

• Space for Freedom: The Search for Architectural Excellence in Muslim Societies, by Ismail Serageldin (PDF files at Wayback Machine)

• Places of Public Gathering in Islam (1980), ed. by Linda Safran (PDF at archnet.org)
• Toward an Architecture in the Spirit of Islam, ed. by Renata Holod (PDF at archnet.org)

• Architecture in Continuity (1985), ed. by Sherban Cantacuzino (PDF at archnet.org)
• Architecture and Community (1983), ed. by Renata Holod and Darl Rastorfer (PDF at archnet.org)

• Architectural and Urban Conservation in the Islamic World (1990), ed. by Abu H. Imamuddin and Karen R. Longeteig (PDF at archnet.org)

• Architecture as Symbol and Self-Identity (1980), ed. by Jonathan G. Katz (PDF at archnet.org)

• Architecture for a Changing World (1992), ed. by James Steele (PDF at)
• Architecture Beyond Architecture (1995), ed. by Cynthia C. Davidson and Ismail Serageldin (PDF at archnet.org)

• Space for Freedom: The Search for Architectural Excellence in Muslim Societies, by Ismail Serageldin (PDF files at Wayback Machine)

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

• Development and Urban Metamorphosis (1983-1984), ed. by Ahmet Evin
  • Volume 1 (Yemen at the Cross-Roads): PDF at archnet.org
  • Volume 2 (Yemen Background Papers): PDF at archnet.org

• Architectural Education in the Islamic World, ed. by Ahmet Evin (PDF at archnet.org)
• Architectural Knowledge and Cultural Diversity (1999), ed. by William O'Reilly (PDF at archnet.org)

• The Mohammedan World of To-Day: Being Papers Read at the First Missionary Conference on Behalf of the Mohammedan World Held at Cairo April 4th-9th, 1906 (New York et al: F. H. Revell Co., c1906), ed. by Samuel Marinus Zwemer, E. M. Wherry, and James L. Barton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Islam, Dialogue and Civil Society, by Muhammad Khatami (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Religion and Cooperation Between Civilizations: Islamic and Christian Cultures in a Global Horizon, by George F. McLean (PDF at crvp.org)

• A Short History of the Saracens: Being a Concise Account of the Rise and Decline of the Saracenic Power and of the Economic, Social and Intellectual Development of the Arab Nation From the Earliest Times to the Destruction of Bagdad, and the Expulsion of the Moors from Spain (London: Macmillan, 1921), by Syed Ameer Ali (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chronicon Quod Perfectissimum Inscribitur (14 volumes, in Arabic with Latin title pages; Lugduni Batavorum: E. J. Brill, 1851-1876), by 'Izz al-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr, ed. by Carolus Johannes Tornberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion And Politics in the Muslim World (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Mohammed Ayoob (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reproductive Health in Islam (ca. 1998), by Ahmad Raja 'Abd al-Hamid Rajab, trans. by Jilali Saib (HTML at IBEST)

• Muslim Anti-Semitism: A Clear and Present Danger (New York: American Jewish Committee, c2002), by Robert S. Wistrich (PDF at ajcarchives.org)

• The Architecture of Housing (1990), ed. by Robert Powell (PDF at archnet.org)

• Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture: Principles and Examples with Reference to Hot Arid Climates, by Hassan Fathy, ed. by Walter Shearer and 'Abd al-Rahman Sultan (illustrated HTML at UNU Press)

• Architecture Beyond Architecture (1995), ed. by Cynthia C. Davidson and Ismail Serageldin (PDF at archnet.org)
• Architecture for Islamic Societies Today (1994), ed. by James Steele (PDF at archnet.org)
• Faith and the Built Environment: Architecture and Behavior in Islamic Cultures, ed. by Suha Ozkan (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down inset to "Associated documents" for chapter links and downloads))

• Communicating With the World of Islam (c2008), by George P. Shultz, ed. by A. Ross Johnson (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)

• Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory (1903), by Duncan Black Macdonald (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Why? The Deeper History Behind the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on America (third edition; c2005), by J. W. Smith (PDF at ied.info)

• Funds in the Khilafah State (Al-Amwal fi Dowlat Al-Khilafah) (second edition, 1988), by Abd al-Qadim Zallum (PDF at khilafah.com)

• Reproductive Health in Islam (ca. 1998), by Ahmad Raja 'Abd al-Hamid Rajab, trans. by Jilali Saib (HTML at IBEST)

• The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion And Politics in the Muslim World (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Mohammed Ayoob (page images at HathiTrust)

• Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2004)
  • PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org
  • page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google

• Reproductive Health in Islam (ca. 1998), by Ahmad Raja 'Abd al-Hamid Rajab, trans. by Jilali Saib (HTML at IBEST)

• Why? The Deeper History Behind the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on America (third edition; c2005), by J. W. Smith (PDF at ied.info)

• Architecture for Islamic Societies Today (1994), ed. by James Steele (PDF at archnet.org)

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