Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 203
ls for this 66 MOHAMMEDAN ART. manufacture, the occupation of weaving and embroidery is thegreatest resource to the women while in the desert; moreover, boththe tent and the naked earth upon which it stands require carpetsand hangings in place of the wood and stone employed by theinhabitants of… … Fig. 88.—Interior of the Mosque of Amru, in Cairo. The Mosque of Amru, in Cairo (Figs. 87 and 88), founded in theyear 643,—consequently only twenty-one years after the Hegira,—is the oldest known architectural creation of the Arabians beyondthe limits of their native country. In it the arrangement…
Art, Medieval
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