musulmane

Updated: May 26, 2025

M. Saladin, in his "Manuel d'Architecture Musulmane," after attempting to unravel the influences which went to the making of the mosque of Kairouan, the walls of Marrakech, the Medersas of Fez influences that lead him back to Chaldaean branch-huts, to the walls of Babylon and the embroideries of Coptic Egypt somewhat despairingly sums up the result: "The principal elements contributed to Moslem art by the styles preceding it may be thus enumerated: from India, floral ornament; from Persia, the structural principles of the Acheminedes, and the Sassanian vault.

Edith Wharton - In Morocco