Preface / Jill N. Claster -- Foreword / Priscilla P. Soucek -- 1. Forced Labor in Early Islamic Architecture: The Case of ar-Raqqa/ar-Rafiqa on the Euphrates -- 2. Busra: From the Provincia Arabia to the Darb al-Hajj -- 3. Hasankeyf/Hisn Kaifa on the Tigris: A Regional Center on the Crossroad of Foreign Influences -- 4. Mamluk Architecture and the Ottoman Empire: The Formation of New Architectural Styles
Summary
"This book, published posthumously, is based on four lectures Professor Meinecke delivered at the [Hagop Kevorkian] Center in the spring of 1991, for the Hagop Kevorkian Lectureship in Near Eastern Art and Civilization".--p. ix
Analysis
Architecture
Middle East
Notes
"All plates appear as a group following p. 117".--p. xii