Jonathan M. Bloom was the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction and acknowledgmentsChapter 1: Islamic Architecture in Umayyad al-Andalus and Aghlabid IfriqiyaChapter 2: Rival Caliphates in the West during the Tenth CenturyChapter 3: The Long Eleventh Century: Dissolution of EmpireChapter 4: The Almoravids and Almohads ca. 1050-ca. 1250Chapter 5: The Nasrids in al-AndalusChapter 6: The Heirs of the Almohads in North Africa, ca. 1250-1500Chapter 7: Caught between the Ottomans and the Hapsburgs:Chapter 8: The Sharifan Dynasties of Morocco 1500-1800Chapter 9: Epilogue: The Legacies of Maghribi Architecture GlossaryWorks CitedIndex

“[A] thorough and well-researched book, which draws attention to the fascinating histories of a variety of different Muslim peoples, as well as to the architectural history of regions across the Islamic West…Engaging and informative...Bloom persuasively suggests that the transmission of architectural knowledge, ideas, and motifs was a great deal more complex than scholars previously thought.”—Lydia Ann Jesudason, Aspectus [Journal of Visual Culture, University of York]“A confident and accurate book that could only be accomplished by a mature scholar...Far more than this, it is a book of someone whose enthusiasm for his subject is as strong as his ability to use a broad knowledge of Islamic and European art to focus it.”—Nancy Steinhardt, Orientations“A formidable collection of architectural knowledge...It is made more accessible by being woven into a rich narrative thread that takes the reader from the medieval to the modern world...An unparalleled collection through which the Islamic architectural history of the region can be better understood and relished.”—Shahed Saleem, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments SocietyCHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles 2021