Download or read book Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires written by Attilio Petruccioli and published by Brill Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in the Islamic garden has increased considerably in the past years, to such a point where a conference specifically on this subject was held at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1994. This volume collects eight papers from the conference and two additional papers especially written for the book, to advance and promote the attention given by scholars these days to Islamic landscape architecture.