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The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem. By OLEG GRABAR. Princeton: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. Pp. 232 + 84 color figures.

The Dome of the Rock. By SA[ddot{I}]D NUSEIBEH and OLEG GRABAR. New York: RIZZOLI, 1996. Pp. 176, color photographs.

The first book under review, that by Grabar alone, is a scholarly study of Jerusalem in the early Islamic period, while the companion book by Nuseibeh and Grabar is a picture book about the Dome of the Rock, aimed at a non-academic readership. Both are especially noteworthy for their comprehensive color photographs of the ...

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