Introduction Part 1: Dar Al-Islam 1.1 Ascendancy of the Caliphate and the Assertion of Orthodoxy 1.2 Decadence of the Caliphate: Shi’ite Challenge 1.3 Sunni Reaction: Caliphate and Sultanate Part 2: Beyond the Western Pale 2.1. Cordoban Caliphate 2.2. Moroccan Sultanates 2.3. Andalusian Enclaves Part 3: Dar Al-Islam Divided 3.1 The Central Axis of the Turks 3.2: The Orbit of Iran Part 4: Beyond The Eastern Pale 4.1. Afghans, Turks and Their Delhi Sultanate 4.2. Regional Gravity 4.3. The Mughals: Advent 4.4. The Deccan: The Qutbshahi and Adilshahi Sultanates 4.5. The Mughals: Apogee Epilogue: Hindustani Syncretism Glossary Further Reading Index
Christopher Tadgell taught architectural history for almost thirty
years before devoting himself full-time to writing and research,
travelling the world to see and photograph buildings from every
tradition and period.
Born in Sydney, he studied art history at the Courtauld Institute
in London. In 1974 he was awarded his PhD for a thesis on the
Neoclassical architectural theorist, Ange-Jacques Gabriel. He
subsequently taught in London and at the Kent Institute of Art and
Design in Canterbury, with interludes as F.L. Morgan Professor of
Architectural Design at the University of Louisville and as a
Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has
lectured at academic institutions around the world, including the
universities of Princeton, Harvard, Columbia and Cornell, the
Graham Foundation in Chicago, and Cambridge University and the
Courtauld Institute in the UK. He is a Trustee of the World
Monuments Fund, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a member
of both the British and American Societies of Architectural
Historians.
His The History of Architecture in India (1990, several reprints,
Phaidon) is the definitive one-volume account of the architecture
of the subcontinent, while many publications on French architecture
include the standard account in Baroque and Rococo Architecture and
Decoration (ed. Blunt, 1978, Elek). He has contributed many
articles on Indian and French architecture to The Grove Dictionary
of Art and other major reference books.
'The greatest value of this fine study lies in its enormous and detailed range, encompassing not only the Islamic heartlands, but traditions as diverse as those of the sultanates of North Africa, the earliest Moslem dynasties of India and the legacy of Tamerlane. A prodigious labour of love.' – Colin Thubron
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