Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 543
ibrary of Alexandria, after the captureof that city. The reply of the cahph is famihar to ail : The booksof which you speak either do or do not agrée with that ^vhich iswritten in the book of God. If they do agrée with it, then tlieKoran is sufRcient and thèse books are useless. If they do not… … immense porticos built around the court of this mosque are full ofthe Byzantine Greek spirit. Fig. 9S présents two bays of this por-tico. We see hère that the Greek architects made use of columnstaken from buildings erected under the empire, and raised on theircapitals arches of a new and very…
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