Abstract
Muqarnas is the Arabic word for stalactite vault, an architectural ornament developed around the middle of the tenth century in north eastern Iran and almost simultaneously, but apparently independently, in central North Africa. A muqarnas is a three–dimensional architectural decoration composed of niche–like elements arranged in tiers.1 In Fig. 47.1 we see an example of an Il Khanid (1256–1336) muqarnas vault: the entrance portal of the shrine of the Holy Bāyazd at Bastām, in Iran (Pope 1939: 1102).
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Dold-Samplonius, Y., & Harmsen, S. L. (2015). Muqarnas: Construction and reconstruction. In Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future: Volume I: Antiquity to the 1500s (pp. 709–719). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00137-1_47
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