Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 324
words:— There is noGod, but God, and Mohammed is his Prophet. Thistext is found very frequently as a decorative legend on thewalls of the mosques and on painted tiles. At firstIMohammeds new religion was not favourably received, SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE AND ORNAMENT. 303 for, after converting his… … Fig- 342.—Rosette in Mosque of Suj-urghatmish ; Seventeenth Century. (L.-P.) altered parts of it, especially as regards the punishment ofidolaters, which naturally included his late persecutors. The punishment w^as to be of an eternal nature in thenext world, and extirpation in this, unless they…
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