A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Z

A
abacus, 12, 29;
boss on, 135.
acanthus, 141, n. 3.
acroterion, 129.
aedicula, 127, 129, 139.
aisle of mosque, 151, 152, 153, 154, 157, 158, 159.
aiwÂn, see lÎwÂn.
Alexandrian influence, 126, 127, 136.
ancient road, KÛfah-ShethÂthÂ, 2, 43.
antechamber, see ?armah.
apadana, 63.
arcade, 16, 17, 19, 23, 28, 30, 32, 35, 49, 50, 71, 125, 153, 154, 155, 156, 159;
blind, 5, 6, 24, 25, 30, 32, 34.
arch, breaking into vault, 10, 20, 34;
construction, 6, 12, 15, 18, 24, 26, 29, 39, 42, 113, 166;
decoration, 122;
horse-shoed, 8, 24, 165, 166;
ogee, 40;
oversailing, 9, 15, 16, 26, 27, 33, 79, 115;
ovoid, 6, 26, 28, 32, 33, 34, 114;
pointed, 5, 6, 9, 16, 29, 32, 34, 112, 114, 118, 165;
relieving, 112, 113, 115, 118;
round, 30, 39, 41, 43, 76, 112, 113, 115, 118, 165;
segmental, 13;
set back from jambs, 14, 16, 20, 25, 26, 28, 33, 76, 79, 118, 166;
stilted, 8, 29, 114, 118;
transition from round or ovoid to pointed, 114, 165;
transverse, 8, 9, 17, 18, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 36, 37, 51, 53, 72, 73, 83, 96, 97, 112, 115, 140.
architrave, 123, 131, 135, 136;
broken, 125, 128.
archivolt, 128, 129, 131, 133, 135.
armamentarium, 102, 103.
Assyro-Babylonian influence, 142, 164.
asymmetry, 51, 52, 79, 81, 93, 94;
in faÇade, 130, 131, 132.
ÂteshgÂh, 91, 92.
attic, 127, 128, 129, 130.
B
bÂdiyah, 55, 112, 119.
bait, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 104, 105, 106, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 118, 120.
balcony, 19, 23, 25, 133.
barracks, in Roman camp, 100, 102, 105.
base, absence of, 27, 42, 134;
bell-shaped, 156.
bastion, 107, 108.
bath, see ?ammÂm.
battering-ram, 107.
brackets, horizontal, under domes, semi-domes, and calottes, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 24, 25, 27, 42, 73, 97, 111, 112, 113.
brick, 13, 24, 26, 28, 30, 39, 40, 41, 45, 54, 69, 70, 71, 79, 82, 84, 96, 113, 115, 117, 154, 155, 160;
enamelled, 122, 123, 140;
sun-dried, 38, 68, 75, 146, 147, 148, 153, 154, 160.
buttress, 4, 35, 71, 122.
buttressing vaults, 14, 26, 35, 74, 75, 95.
Byzantine influence, 115, 119, 143, 147.
C
calotte, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 24, 26, 34, 38, 73, 133, 138;
construction, 13;
laid in rings, 24, 42;
stilted, 13.
capital, 25, 77;
absent, 6, 30, 138, 140;
bell-shaped, 156;
Corinthian, 135, 141;
impost-, of masonry and stucco, 12, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30, 42, 134, 135, 138, 140;
Ionic, 65;
wreathed acanthus, 153.
caravanserai type, 104, 106, 111 n.
casemate, 22, 107, 108, 109, 121.
castrum, Sasanian, 105.
cavetto, 12.
cella, 94, 126.
centering, 9, 12, 13, 15, 18, 26, 28, 30, 33 nn. 1 and 2, 45, 71, 72, 75, 76, 78;
ribbed, 7, 111;
thrust of, concentrated on angle piers, 78, 96.
dragon motive, 90, 143.
dungeon, 9.
Duru, 88.
E
Egyptian fortification, 106;
influence, 127 n. 1;
tombs, 124.
entablature, 76, 130;
broken, 127, 128;
Ionic, 127.
F
faÇade, Babylonian and Assyrian, 122, 123;
Graeco-Roman, 123;
Hellenistic, 24, 25, 51, 66, 88, 119, 122, 123, 124, 126-34;
of lÎwÂn, 32, 34, 66, 78, 82, 95, 136, 137, 138;
of mosque court, 143, 144, 156, 158;
Roman, 124, 125;
single-arched, 138, 139;
towered, of khilÂni, 62, 63, 75, 77, 78, 116;
triple-arched, 136, 137, 138.
fillet, 8, 10, 25, 27, 51, 52, 76, 79, 115, 123, 133.
fire altar, see ÂteshgÂh.
flutes, triple, 78, 41, 114;
of Roman camp, 99.
gorge, Egyptian, 76, 127.
graffito, KharÂneh, 115;
Ukhai?ir, 31, 161, 162, 163.
Greek influence, 65, 66, 75, 87, 97, 119, 127, 130, 137, 139;
in India, 123, 136, 140, 141, 142, 143, 152, 164.
guard-rooms, 50, 51, 81, 92.
H
?air, 56.
?ammÂm, 4, 37, 56, 111, 112.
?aram, 17, 18, 21, 26, 27, 82, 83, 122, 147, 151, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 167.
?arb, 58.
HazÂrbÂf, 26, 138.
head wall, 19, 27.
?ertÂ, 56.
?Îrah, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 74, 78, 81, 86, 87, 90, 97, 117, 119, 120, 161, 162, 166.
?Îri, 58, 59, 86, 121.
horizontal decoration, 24, 79, 128, 129, 130, 131, 133.
horreum, 102, 103.
hourd, 107, 116, 121, 133, 134.
house, Arab, 145, 146, 158;
Hellenistic, 65, 87, 89, 99, 120;
lÎwÂn-?armah, 87, 117;
Roman, 87, 89.
hypostyle pavilion over gate, 81.
I
incrusted style, 124.
inscriptions, absence of, in early Mohammadan architecture, 161.
inscription with date, DiyÂrbekr, 158;
?arrÂn, 152;
KharÂneh, 115;
MayÂfÂrqÎn, 159;
MÔ?ul, 160;
Qa?r ibn WardÂn, 112;
Raqqah, 153.
intervallum, 98, 100, 102, 103.
K
khÂn, 40, 41, 43, 143.
khilÂni, 62, 63, 66, 75, 76, 80, 82, 84, 87-93, 116, 119, 120.
khu?bah, 146 n. 1.
kitchen, 32, 33, 42, 47, 48, 49, 82, 83.
L
label, rectangular, 13, 27, 51.
latitudinal chamber, 45, 47, 49, 62, 65 n. 4, 78, 80, 90, 92, 93, 94.
ledge, see balcony.
limes, Roman oriental, 97, 98, 100-6, 110, 111, 120;
Roman western, 98, 110.
lintel, 112, 113, 115;
of masonry, 16, 25, 118.
lÎwÂn, 22, 23, 26, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 53, 60, 62, 63, 65, 66, 70, 73, 75, 76, 78, 80, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 104, 112, 116, 117, 119, 132, 137, 138, 142, 143, 167.
loggia, 78, 123.
longitudinal chamber, 78, 93, 94.
loophole, 6, 7, 9, 107, 115, 116, 121, 140, 166.
lozenge, 8, 17.
M
machicolation, 7, 107, 121.
madjlis, 145.
madrasah, 159.
Magi, 91, 92.
maq?Ûrah, 147, 148, 149.
masdjid, 145.
masdjid al-djamÂ’ah, 146, 148.
megaron, 65 n. 4, 89, 120.
mi?rÂb, 16, 17 n., 18, 132, 141, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 155, 157, 159, 168.
minaret, at Abu Dulaf, 156;
at BaghdÂd, 40;
at Ba?rah, 148;
at I?fahÂn, 41 n. 1;
at Raqqah, 153, 154;
at SÂmarrÂ, 156;
at ?ÂÛq, 40;
of Ghazni, 41;
of Ibn ?ulÛn, 156.
minbar, 146, 149, 150, 151.
misr, 146, 148.
Mohammadan art, 142.
mortar, bitumen, 69, 96;
clay, 96;
gypsum, 12, 15, 44, 96.
mosaic, 65, 147, 148.
mosque, 16, 17, 20, 21, 26, 40, 86, 117, 132, 133, 141, 142, 144, 145-60, 168.
moulding, 124, 125, 128, 133, 166;
continuous, 133.
N
narthex, see ?armah.
niche, arched, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 24, 25, 34, 37, 38, 13;
ornament, 18, 27, 34, 40, 133, 140;
square containing circle, on mosques, 156.
Retentura, 102.
retreating angles, see crÉmaillÈre.
rinceaux, 141 n. 3.
riwÂq, arÛqah, 17, 20, 58, 59, 147, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 156, 157, 158, 160.
rock-cut monuments, 72, 123, 126-30, 142.
Roman camp, stockaded earthwork, 97, 99, 110;
stone, 97, 99, 100-4;
type, 98, 99, 103, 105, 106, 120, 121.
Roman influence, 136, 137.
Roman temple tomb, 127.
roof, wooden, 144, 150, 152, 153, 156, 158.
rosette, 17, 18, 27, 140.
S
sacellum, 98, 101, 103, 104.
safÂfÎd, 149.
?a?n, 17, 20, 21, 23, 143, 144, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 154, 141, 164.
scollop, see cusp.
semi-dome, 18, 27, 28, 38, 42, 73, 79, 111, 112, 115, 139;
fluted, 25, 118, 139.
serdÂb, 25, 28, 35, 37, 82.
spandrel, 6, 12, 24, 27, 34, 131, 133.
spear-shaped motive, 27, 140.
spiral motive, 133.
squinch arch, 18, 23, 27, 38, 50, 51, 52, 53, 73, 79, 96, 97, 115, 140, 159;
fluted, 18.
stair, 7, 13, 20, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 46, 82;
on ÂtesgÂh, 91, 92.
staircase motive, 127.
stela, 123, 135.
stoa, 65, 124, 126.
stone, dressed, 65 n. 1, 70, 96, 124, 126, 159;
undressed masonry, 6, 24, 28, 44, 69, 76, 78, 84, 96, 113, 116, 117, 160.
stucco, 12, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 26, 34, 52, 86, 115, 124, 125, 134, 140, 164;
oversailing bars, 18, 26, 28, 38, 51, 65, 66, 140.
stupa, 123.
?uffah, 146.
symmetry, 92.
T
tabernacle in votive niches and tombs, 127.
?Âqchah, 28, 35, 51, 52, 76.
?armah, 30, 32, 48, 53, 83, 84, 87, 88, 93, 94, 119, 137, 138.
temple, Assyrian, 92, 93, 94, 124;
Babylonian, 92, 93, 94;
fire, 90, 92, 94;
in antis, 66;
peripteral, 65.
tetrapylon, 98.
theatre, at Babylon, 65;
at Ephesus, 125.
tholos, 128, 129.
torus, 76.
towers, À cheval, 103, 108;
chamber, 7, 31;
flanking, 4, 6, 7, 33, 36, 37, 41, 60, 99-110, 113, 114, 116, 117, 121, 153, 155;
in Roman camp, 99;
polygonal, 109;
rounded and rectangular, 103, 107, 108, 109;
tomb, 41 n. 1.
transept of mosque, 152, 155, 158, 159.
trifoliate apse, 117.
tubes, decoration, value of, 35, 143;
imply vault, 143;
in vault, 14, 19, 22, 30, 31, 33, 35, 36, 76, 143, 144.
U
Ukhai?ir, absence of bath, 166;
central court, 23, 24-6, 33, 34, 82, 131;
corridor, 28, pp. 20, 23, 24, 25, 29, 33;
court A, 16, 19;
court B, 23, 30, 31, 32, 33, 82, 83;
court C, 23, 30, 32, 33, 82, 83;
court D, 23, 33;
court E, 23, 24, 30, 33, 83;
court F, 29, 33;
court G, 23, 30, 32, 33, 82, 83;
court H, 23, 30, 32, 33, 82, 83;
east annex, 34, 35, 82;
great hall (7), 12-14, 19, 24, 81;
?ammÂm, 37;
imperfect seclusion of ?aram courts, 166;
inner walls and towers, 33;
mosque, 16-19, 150;
name of, 162;
north annex, 36, 37, 60;
north gate tower, 9, 10, 19, 21;
outer walls and gates, 4-9, 34, 78, 81;
palace yard, 5, 14, 20, 32, 33, 34;
passages 5 and 6 pp. 10, 14, 16, 34;
room 4, p. 9;
rooms 29-42, pp. 26-9, 34, 35, 82;
three-storied block, 14-23, 24, 25, 32, 33, 81, 117.
underground rooms, see serdÂb.
‘uqÛd, 148.
V
vault, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 41, 42, 48, 49, 50, 51, 72, 73, 75,