Dictionary of islamic architecture

See also:
Kano, West Africa
Further reading:
S.B.Aradeon, ‘Traditional Hausa architecture: the
interface between structure and decoration’, 
Arts of the
Islamic World
5(1) : 19–23 , 1988.
A.Leary, ‘A decorated palace in Kano’, 
Art and Archaeology
Research Papers
12 : 11–17 , 1977.
J.C.Moughtin, ‘The traditional settlements of the Hausa
people’, 
Town Planning Review
35(1) : 21–34, 1964.
—— ‘The Friday mosque at Zaria city’, 
Savanah,
1(2) :
143–63, 1972.
L.Prussin, ‘Fulani-Hausa architecture’, 
African Arts
10(1),
1976.
——, ‘Fulani-Hausa architecture: genesis of a style’,
African Arts
13(2): 57–65, 79–82, 85–7, 1976.
F.Schwerdtfeger, ‘Housing in Zaria’, 
Shelter in Africa,
New
York 1971.
M.G.Smith, The beginnings of Hausa society, AD 1000–
1500’, in 
The Historian in Tropical Africa,
ed. J.Vanisa 
et
al.
, London 1964.
Hausa

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H.Tukur Saad, 
Between Myth and Reality: The Aesthetics of
Traditional Architecture in Hausaland,
Ann Arbor
University Microfilms.
hayr (ha
ir)
Walled enclosures often associated with early Islamic
palaces. Early examples are the enclosures at Qasr
al-Hayr (East and West) and more significantly those
of Samarra in Iraq. The exact function of these
enclosures may vary; at Samarra they appear to be
hunting reserves whereas at Qasr al-Hayr they may
have a more utilitarian function.
hazarbaf
Iranian term for decorative brickwork.
hazira
A tomb contained within an enclosure which often
includes a mosque. This form of tomb became
popular in Timurid Iran.