One of the worldโs largest squares, framed by the tiled masterpieces of Safavid Isfahan.
The world's largest car-free old city.
The Andalusian capital of the Maghreb: the Great Mosque, the Mansourah ruins and the El Mechouar palace.
The city of saints: blue-tiled Sufi shrines and the hottest summers in the subcontinent.
Rumi's tomb and the whirling dervishes, the Seljuk capital in the middle of Anatolia.
Restored gateway fortress and madrasas on the old road west of Dushanbe.
Medieval minaret and mausoleums.
Desert town and old religious centre.
Faded Ottoman-Italian Red Sea port.
Ancient Saharan town of desert libraries.
Coral-stone lanes and the Old Friday Mosque on the Indian Ocean.
Living Silk Road museum-city.
Seven hundred monuments in a maze of covered souks around the Zitouna mosque, largely unchanged since the Middle Ages.
A walled Silk Road city preserved whole โ minarets, madrasas and mud walls glowing at dusk.
Tiny island of coral-stone colonial buildings that named the country.
Sarajevo's Ottoman old bazaar.
Pyramidal earthen tomb of the Songhai emperor, bristling with wooden stakes.
Swahili island town of donkeys, dhows and carved doorways.
Ancient city of the Patriarchs.
Al-Baladโs coral-stone merchant houses with carved wooden balconies, a UNESCO gateway for centuries of Mecca pilgrims.
One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities: the Umayyad Mosque, Straight Street and the Souq al-Hamidiyah.
Ninth-century mosque with the spiralling Malwiya minaret.
Ancient fortified towns of the Mzab.
15th-century mosque at Bagerhat, UNESCO-listed.
Labyrinthine Swahili trading town of carved doors and spice bazaars.
Ancient Islamic city of 82 mosques, where hyenas are fed by hand at night.
Remote 65-metre brick minaret, alone in a river gorge since the 12th century.
Medieval quarter of a thousand minarets: the Khan el-Khalili bazaar, Al-Azhar mosque and the Sultan Hassan madrasa.
Moorish palace-fortress of Granada.
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