TO MY FRIEND DR. WALTHER ANDRAE IN GRATEFUL RECOLLECTION OF HAPPY AND PROFITABLE DAYS SPENT IN THE FIRST CAPITAL OF ASSYRIA WHICH HAS BEEN REVEALED BY HIS LABOUR AND RECREATED BY HIS LEARNING I have attempted in this book to bring together the materials, so far as they are known, which bear upon the earliest phases of Mohammadan architecture, to consider the circumstances under which it arose and the roots from which it sprang. No development of civilization, or of the arts which serve and adorn civilization, has burst full-fledged from the forehead of the god; and architecture, which is the first and most permanent of the arts, reflects with singular fidelity the history of its creators. N…
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