The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c30.10

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² These remarks apply rather to the architecture of Eastern than Western Persia. The former is distinguished by its essentially decorative character, the latter by its constructional forms and motifs, which link it up with the Islamic architecture of Mesopotamia and ultimately with the Hellenistic monuments of the Nearer East.