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Garden styles with an Islamic influence

Islamic Culture has inflenced landscapes in the North Africa, Spain and India as well as the Middle East. The celebrated Alhambra in Spain is one such landscape.

Many elements of Islamic garden could be adapted to Australian suburbia: The indoor/outdoor lifestyle, encloded spaces and deployment of water in an arid climate are key features that have much in common with today's gardens.

This is a new page (June 2008), so not a lot to see here yet, but you may nevertheless find some some useful information in the links below.

Links

Islamic Gardens School of Architecture, Planning and Landsape, Newcastle University

Paradise on earth: Historical gardens of the arid Middle East Office of Arid Land Studies, University of Arizona, USA.

Saudi Aramco World magazine check the article archive for numerous articles about art, architecture, landscape and many other topics about the Middle East and Islamic world.

Gardens of the Mughal empire (Indian subcontinent) by Smithsonian Institution

Bahrain Garden Club

Mahmood's Garden Blog about the challenges of gardening in Bahrain

Al Ain chapter of the Emirates Natural History Group Look under Botany for topics related to plants and landscaping in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

Adeniums in the wild Adenium arabicum in Yemen and Oman