The book examines the destruction of the architectural heritage in Mosul perpetrated by Islamic State between 2014 and 2017. It identifies which structures were attacked, the ideological rationale behind the destruction, and the significance of the lost monuments in the context of Mosul's urban development and the architectural history of the Middle East. This methodologically innovative work fills an important gap in the study of both current radical movements and the medieval Islamic architecture of Northern Iraq.

Outlines the methods used in the processing of available archaeological and historical data in order to create profiles of individual monuments in Mosul Investigates the story of Mosul which has been severely damaged by ISIS Present the results of 3D reconstructions of destroyed sites, created on the basis of preserved documentation

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Karel Novác ek is Associate Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the Palacký University at Olomouc.

Miroslav Melc ák is a research fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.

Ondr ej Beránek is Director of the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Lenka Starková is Assistant Professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of West Bohemia Pilsen.

Lucie PospíSilová (aka Nyx Alexander Design) is a freelance graphic designer and 3D artist.

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