[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911) › c18.9 # A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.9 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.9 - **Language:** English ### [c18.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c18.9) 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. - [Previous: c18.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c18.8) - [Next: c18.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c18.10) - [Up: c18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c18) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c18.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c18.9) · Pramāṇa