D. Fairchild Ruggles is Professor and the Debra L. Mitchell Chair in Landscape History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain.

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• PrefaceChapter 1: The Islamic LandscapePlace and MemoryChapter 2: Making the Desert BloomTransforming an Inhospitable EarthChapter 3: The Science of GardeningAgricultural and Botanical ManualsChapter 4: Organizing the EarthCross-axial Gardens and the Chahar BaghChapter 5: Trees and PlantsBotanical Evidence from Texts and ArchaeologyChapter 6: Representations of Gardens and LandscapeImagery in Manuscript Paintings, Textiles, and Other MediaChapter 7: Imaginary GardensGardens in Fantasy and LiteratureChapter 8: The Garden as ParadiseThe Historical Beginnings of Paradisiac IconographyChapter 9: The Here and HereafterMausolea and Tomb GardensChapter 10: A Garden in LandscapeThe Taj Mahal and Its PrecursorsChapter 11: Religion and CultureThe Adoption of Islamic Garden Culture by Non-MuslimsList of Gardens and SitesSpainSicilyMoroccoAlgeriaTunisiaEgyptTurkeySyria and RegionOmanIraqIranCentral AsiaPakistanIndiaUnited StatesGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

D. Fairchild Ruggles is Professor and the Debra L. Mitchell Chair in Landscape History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain.

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• PrefaceChapter 1: The Islamic LandscapePlace and MemoryChapter 2: Making the Desert BloomTransforming an Inhospitable EarthChapter 3: The Science of GardeningAgricultural and Botanical ManualsChapter 4: Organizing the EarthCross-axial Gardens and the Chahar BaghChapter 5: Trees and PlantsBotanical Evidence from Texts and ArchaeologyChapter 6: Representations of Gardens and LandscapeImagery in Manuscript Paintings, Textiles, and Other MediaChapter 7: Imaginary GardensGardens in Fantasy and LiteratureChapter 8: The Garden as ParadiseThe Historical Beginnings of Paradisiac IconographyChapter 9: The Here and HereafterMausolea and Tomb GardensChapter 10: A Garden in LandscapeThe Taj Mahal and Its PrecursorsChapter 11: Religion and CultureThe Adoption of Islamic Garden Culture by Non-MuslimsList of Gardens and SitesSpainSicilyMoroccoAlgeriaTunisiaEgyptTurkeySyria and RegionOmanIraqIranCentral AsiaPakistanIndiaUnited StatesGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

D. Fairchild Ruggles is Professor and the Debra L. Mitchell Chair in Landscape History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain.

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• PrefaceChapter 1: The Islamic LandscapePlace and MemoryChapter 2: Making the Desert BloomTransforming an Inhospitable EarthChapter 3: The Science of GardeningAgricultural and Botanical ManualsChapter 4: Organizing the EarthCross-axial Gardens and the Chahar BaghChapter 5: Trees and PlantsBotanical Evidence from Texts and ArchaeologyChapter 6: Representations of Gardens and LandscapeImagery in Manuscript Paintings, Textiles, and Other MediaChapter 7: Imaginary GardensGardens in Fantasy and LiteratureChapter 8: The Garden as ParadiseThe Historical Beginnings of Paradisiac IconographyChapter 9: The Here and HereafterMausolea and Tomb GardensChapter 10: A Garden in LandscapeThe Taj Mahal and Its PrecursorsChapter 11: Religion and CultureThe Adoption of Islamic Garden Culture by Non-MuslimsList of Gardens and SitesSpainSicilyMoroccoAlgeriaTunisiaEgyptTurkeySyria and RegionOmanIraqIranCentral AsiaPakistanIndiaUnited StatesGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments