Islamic Architecture: Form, function and meaning
| Name of text: | Islamic Architecture: Form, function and meaning |
| Author of text: | Robert Hillenbrand |
| Date of text: | 1994 |
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| Name of structure in text: | Al Ablaq Palace |
| Type of structure in text: | palace |
| Date of structure in text | 1313-15 |
| Century of structure 1: | 14 AD |
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| Country in text: | Egypt |
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| City in text: | Cairo citadel |
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| Description of mosaic in text: | Mosaic, stained glass, mother-of-pearl, lapis lazuli and marble paving supplemented the two-tone masonry which gave the palace its name |
| Mosaic date in text: | 14 AD |
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| Bibliography: | Hillenbrand, Robert, Islamic Architecture: Form, function and meaning (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994), p. 437 |
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