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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unrean/unused condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> This book reinterprets the Muslim architecture and urban planning of South India looking beyond the Deccan to the regions of Tamil Nadu and Kerala – the historic coasts of Coromandel and Malabar. For the first time a detailed survey of the Muslim monuments of the historic ports and towns demonstrates a rich and diverse architectural tradition entirely independent from the better known architecture of North India and the Deccan sultanates. The book extensively illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings widens the horizons of our understanding of Muslim India and will no doubt pave new paths for future studies in the field. Mehrdad Shokoohy is an architect and specialist in the conservation of urban environments. He is Chair of Architecture and Urban Studies at the University of Greenwich and has a particular interest in the architecture and planning of the Middle East and South and Central Asia. His expertise extends to the fields of the literature history archaeology epigraphy and numismatics of these regions. For his contributions to South Asian studies he has been awarded the Degree of Doctor of Science by Heriot-Watt University and the Edinburgh College of Art. (MP)