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The Süleymaniye Mosque and the Taj Mahal were built nearly a century apart—one during 1550-1557, the other during 1632-1652—and geographically in two far-off places—the one in Istanbul, Turkey, the other in Agra, India. These specimens of Islamic architecture outshine not only buildings of their own times but those since. In the case of Sül