Note 265 — Chapter IV · GENESIS OF THE EARLY MOHAMMADAN PALACE (continued 2)

In any case the maxim laid down by Dr. Herzfeld (’Genesis,’ Der Islam, vol. i. p. 110) is misleading. It is too hasty a generalization and it does not cover the facts. At Ukhaiḍir door openings are sometimes wider and sometimes narrower than the arches above them, and it is doubtful whether the same is not the case at Sarvistân. See above, p. 79.