Four Central Asian Shrines

Four Central Asian Shrines
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Download or read book Four Central Asian Shrines written by R.D. McChesney and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Central Asian Shrines documents the social history of four long-standing Muslim shrines—at Samarqand, Balkh, Mazar-i Sharif, and Qandahar—and the evolution of their architecture as depicted in the written record and through a century and a quarter of photographs.


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