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Edinburgh University Press The Minaret by Jonathan M Bloom
Tracing its origins and development, Bloom reveals that the Minaret, long understood to have been invented in the early years of Islam as the place from which the muezzin gives the call to prayer, was actually invented some two centuries later to be a visible symbol of Islam. Originally published in 1989, this new edition is revised, expanded and generously illustrated in colour. In addition to Iran, Egypt, Turkey and India West, it now explores the Minaret in East Africa, the Yemen and Southeast Asia.