• Hillenbrand, R. 1982. “La Dolce Vita in early Islamic Syria: the evidence of the later Umayyad Palaces.” Art History 5:1, 1-35.

• Genequand, D. 2005. “Umayyad castles: the Shift from late Antique Military Architecture to early Islamic Palatial Building.” in Muslim Military Architecture in greater Syria. ed. H. Kennedy. Brill

• Grabar, Oleg. 1993. “Umayyad Palaces reconsidered.” Ars Orientalis. 23: 93-108

• Robinson, C. ed. 2001. A Medieval Islamic City Reconsidered: An interdisciplinary Approach to Samarra. Oxford U. Press

Read: “Introduction” (Robinson, 9-20); The Palaces of the Abbasids at Samarra (Northedge 29-68); “The form of the Military Cantonments at Samarra” (Kennet 157-182)

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