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Hardcover, bound in black cloth and lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s glossy pictorial dust-jacket. 210 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 85 black and white photographs. First edition. An examination of the early medieval transformation in Islamic architectural motifs as representative of cultural conflict between Seljuk and post-Seljuk proponents of the traditionalist Sunni revival and their main opponents in Fatimid Egypt. No previous ownership marks. AS clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.