A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.9

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¹ The exceptional wooden mosques of Kashmīr have tall spires, probably derived from Buddhist architecture (Nicholls, ‘Muhammadan Architecture in Kashmir,’ *Ann. Rep. A. S., India*, 1906–7, pp. 161–70, with plates; a valuable treatise). My text is based on the article ‘Les Origines de l’Art musulman’, by M. Louis Bréhier (*La Revue des Idées*, Paris, No. 75, Mars 1910, pp. 189–99), and on Saladin, *Manuel d’Art musulman*, tome i, chap. I (Paris, 1907). The view of Fergusson (ed. 1910, vol. ii, p. 197) that the Musalman invaders of India were ‘Turanians’ with ‘a style of their own’ does not express the facts correctly.