Earthly Paradise: Garden and Courtyard in Islam |
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Contents
Preface | 7 |
Map showing principal surviving gardens | 28 |
Setting the scene Significance of the garden The complementary nature of garden | 35 |
Moorish Spain Cordova Granada Seville | 75 |
Mughal India Agra Delhi Kashmir Lahore Pinjore Fatehpur Sikri Sikandra | 120 |
Other regions North Africa Sicily Egypt The Arabian peninsula Turkey | 168 |
The Islamic garden and courtyard today | 217 |
Postscript | 225 |
Select chronology of gardens and courtyards | 232 |
Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Earthly Paradise: Garden and Courtyard in Islam |
| Author | Jonas Benzion Lehrman |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1980 |
| ISBN | 0520043634, 9780520043633 |
| Length | 240 pages |
| Subjects | › Art / General |
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