Islamic religious architecture is closely related to ____.
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The Saminid mausoleum from Bukhara can be said to be which of the following structure types?
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The ____ is the leader of collective worship who preaches from the minbar.
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The design of Islamic Korans has parallels in ____.
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In the seventh century,the capital of Islam had been transferred from Mecca to Damascus by the ____.
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Critical of the polytheistic religion of his fellow Arabs,Muhammad had all the idols destroyed,but he preserved the Kaaba.Which of the following supports the reason for this preservation?
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____ was the greatest achievement of the court architect,Suleyman the Magnificent.
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The mihrab,a semicircular niche set in the qibla wall,possibly honors the place where ____.
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The supposed precursor of the hypostyle designed mosques,such as Kairouan,is ____.
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The event called the Hijra,which was ____,marks the beginning of Islam.
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The practice of ____ was considered a holy task and required arduous training.
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The Great Mosque at Córdoba has a hypostyle prayer hall with horseshoe-shaped arches adapted from which of the following?
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Too tall to call Muslims to prayer,the Malwiya minaret in Samarra may have functioned as a symbol of the____.
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At the Cordoba maqsura,the architects experimented with ____.
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Which of the following is built over the place from which Muhammad began his miraculous journey to heaven?
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How is interior architectural space defined in the Muslim world?
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The vault in the Hall of the Abencerrajes is meant to symbolize ____.
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The coming of a new religion to Jerusalem,a city sacred to both Jews and Christians,is marked by a monument known as the ____.
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The structural foundation of the Great Mosque of Damascus used a ____ as its foundation.
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The positioning of all mosques,no matter period or country,must be oriented toward which of the following cities?
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