Summary The Religious Architecture of Islam is a wide-ranging multi-author study of the architectural traditions associated with the religion of Islam across the globe. Essays both address major themes across the history of Islamic architecture and provide more focused studies of developments unique to specific regions and historical periods. The essays cover the history of Islamic religious architecture broadly defined, including mosques, madrasas, saints' shrines, and funerary architecture. The Religious Architecture of Islam both provides an introduction to the history of Islamic architecture and reflects the most recent scholarship within the field. TABLE OF CONTENTS AL-ANDALUS AND THE MAGHRIB Glaire D. Anderson ? Early Mosque Architecture in Al-Andalus and the Maghrib Glaire D. Anderson ? Islamic Religious Spaces in Secular Monuments in the West Through the Caliphal Period Susana Calvo Capilla ? The Mosque of Cordoba Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza ? The Mosque of Cordoba and Iberia's Christians Jessica Renee Streit ? Almohad Religious Spaces Susana Calvo Capilla ? The Taifa-period Mosques of Al-Andalus Susana Calvo Capilla ? The Rural and Urban Mosques of Al-Andalus AFRICA AND SICILY Jonathan M. Bloom ? Fatimid Mosques Kristen Streahle ? Religious Spaces in Islamic and Norman Sicily Lara Tohme ? The Ribats of North Africa Mariam Rosser-Owen ? The Almoravid Religious Spaces of Marrakesh and Fez Cynthia Robinson ? The Great Mosque of Tlemcen Hasan-Uddin Khan ? The Mosque of Hassan II, Casablanca Amira K. Bennison ? Madrasas in the Maghrib Amira K. Bennison ? Mosques and Society in the Maghrib Stephennie Mulder ? Mamluk Religious Architecture Nnamdi Elleh ? The Earth Mosques of West Africa Vera-Simone Schulz ? Coral Stone Mosques in East Africa EUROPE Jelena Bogdanovi? ? Religious Landscape in the Balkans in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Jelena Bogdanovi? and Vladimir Kuli? ? The ?erefudin White Mosque Nebahat Avc?o?lu ? The Modern and Contemporary Mosque in Europe, Russia, and Turkey Nebahat Avc?o?lu ? Britain's First Mosque: Woking THE AMERICAS Omar Khalidi ? North American Mosques Tammy Gaber ? Canadian Mosques Caroline ?Olivia? Wolf ? Modern and Contemporary Mosques in Latin America Caroline ?Olivia? Wolf ? Argentina's King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center Glossary Index