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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...arches. These arches are pointed, the curves becoming straight at the key. Those in the nave are set up on high impost blocks, while those in the aisles are raised by means of pedestals. This type of arch, derived from the Indian 'cyma reversa arch, ' is known as the Persian arch. The fact, however, remains that Persia, so far as we know at present, contains no dated examples earlier than those in the mosque al-Azhar, and it appears to be of Egyptian origin. I describe it as 'the pointed mixtilinear arch.' We do not know the name of the architect who invented this new form. But remembering that its introduction corresponds to the Fatimite conquest, 1 Herz, op. cit., pp. xxxiv and xxxv. Lane-poole, A History of Egypt under tl1e Saracens, pp. 99-104, 117, 242, 276, 302, 324. Bour1ant, Mimoires publiies par les Membres de la Mission Archtologique Francaise au Caire, vol. xix, pp. 43-50; Van Berchem, Matiriaux pour un Corpus inscriptionum arabicarum. Lane, op. cit., pp. 599, 600. Nas1r1 Kusru, op. cit., p. 135. Journal Asiatique, 1891, i, pp. 424-429, 441; Van Berchem, Notes d'Archtologie arabe. Lane Poole, The Story of Cairo, pp. 124, 125. Fig. 132.--Cairo. Mosque al-Azhar. Side of the court and minarets. Fig. 135.--Cairo. Mosque of Hakim. Interior of the dome of the mihrab (X and XI ce ts.). Fig. 136.--Cairo. Mosque of Hakim. Southern minaret (X, XI, and XIV cents.). and that in the great mosque of Kairawan, as far back as the days of Ziyadat Allah I (816-837), round horse-shoe arches were raised up on high bases, it seems to me not improbable that it originated in the desire to combine the pointed arch, which in its horse-shoe form had been brought into vogue in Egypt by Ibn Tulun, with the high imposts at Kairawan, the seat of the Fatimids in Barbary before ...

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