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Here is a list of few books and websites that might be helpful to learn more about the Islamic culture.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Haider, Gulzar, "Brother in Islam, Please Draw us a Mosque: Muslims in the West: A Personal Account" in Expressions of Islam in Buildings, (Indonesia, The Aga Khan Trust for Cultures, Proceedings of an International Seminar held in Jakarta and Yogyakarta, 15-19 October 1990, 155-66).

Kahera, Akel Ismail, "Image, Text and Form: Complexities of Aesthetics in an American Masjid" Studies in Contemporary Islam, vol.1 No.2 1999, 73-85.

Kahera, Akel and Latif Abdul-Malik, "Designing the American Mosque," September-October (1996) 40-41.

Metcaff, Barbara Daly, Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1996.

Khalidi, Omar, "Approaches to Mosque Design in North America" in Yvonne Haddad and John Esposito, Muslims on the Americanization Path?, (Atlanta, Georgia, Scholars Press, 1998, 399-424).

Jose Pererira, Islamic Sacred Architecture: A Stylistic History, Books and Books, New Delhi, 1994.

Richard Ettinghausen and Oleg Grabar, The Art and Architecture of Islam 650-1250, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1987.

John D. Hoag, Islami Architecture,  Electa/Rizzoli, Milan, 1975.

Oleg Grabar, The Formation of Islamic Art, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1973.

George Mitchell, Ed. , Architecture of the Islamic World,Thames and Hudson, London, 1978.

Robert Hillenbrand, Islamic Art and Architecture, Thames and Hudson, London, 1999.

 

WEBSITES

The Islamic City

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