A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . uring the first cen-tury after the Hegira (622-722 ), extendedover Syria (Damascus, Jerusalem, Aleppo, An-tioch, 634-G-tl), Persia (Madaia captured 642 ;Sassanid dynasty overthrown), Armenia andMesopotamia (644), Rhodes (655), and north-ern Africa (Cyrene or Kairouan, 655; Car-thage, 692) and Spain (710-713). Sicily andsouthern Italy were subjugated early in theninth century. As early as 637 the conquerorOmar erected a magnificent mosque on the tem-ple site in Jerusalem. This was purely Byzan-tine in st
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . uring the first cen-tury after the Hegira (622-722 ), extendedover Syria (Damascus, Jerusalem, Aleppo, An-tioch, 634-G-tl), Persia (Madaia captured 642 ;Sassanid dynasty overthrown), Armenia andMesopotamia (644), Rhodes (655), and north-ern Africa (Cyrene or Kairouan, 655; Car-thage, 692) and Spain (710-713). Sicily andsouthern Italy were subjugated early in theninth century. As early as 637 the conquerorOmar erected a magnificent mosque on the tem-ple site in Jerusalem. This was purely Byzan-tine in style, and has wholly perished. Themosque of Amru, at Fostat, near the modernCairo, built a few years later, was a purelyCoptic design ; a few vestiges of it still edifices in Jerusalem (El Aksah, KubbetYakub, Mehd Isa, Djaim, etc.) and in Arabiawere either Coptic or Byzantine in style; soalso the of El Walid and the Maristanat Damascus (705). Shortly after this thekhalifate was transferred from Damascus toBagdad, under the Abbasid line. The expelled964 PLATE XXXI. MOSLEM ARCHITECTURK The detail of the mosque of Kait Bey, in Cairo, jmitated in ^V}-^^ ^^^ of U,e J^^^^^^-EVPt. The use of scroll patterns and interlacuig 1 his mosque, wi «^^5,.>.| ,.;. ,, ,„ustmierus in l,:.w relief and iu cut stone is very inter- the ftfteentl, of e [ ^- ? ^ J,, estin- This is the kind of decoration which was not be confounded with the tomb ot > MOSLEM ARCHITECTURE Oliiiiiy^;, tkriiii; to Nuith AlVirii, ostalilisliedthe iiideiwiuleiit klialifate of the Moghreb (Mo-rocco), wliicli rapidly rose in power and civili-zation, and overran Spain, wliere in time thekhalifate of Cordova surpassed the splendoursof Kairowan and the Moghreb. The ninth andtenth centuries were the most brilliant era ofMoslem civilization. This period covers thesplenilid reigns of El Mansur, Haroun-el-lla-shid, and El Mamoiui, in the East, under whomBagdad was adorned with mostpi
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