Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Islamic World, The
6. [Islamic World dynastic styles and periods]
7. [Spanish and North African Islamic styles and periods]

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers generally to the style of art, architecture, and material culture created by the Islamic North Africans, including the colonizers of the Iberian Peninsula and their descendants of North African and mixed North African and Iberian lineage. The style predominated approximately from the eighth to the 15th century in Spain and the region of Mauretania in North Africa (now comprised of Morocco and part of Algeria), though it persisted in a smaller way after that and elements are still used today. For the style created and used by the people of the modern West African nation, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, see "Maure".