The project aims to study the Islamic architecture in southern India from the spread of Islam to the annexation of some southern regions by the Mughal Empire - or, in the case of the extreme southern regions, to the colonial period. These productions have always been neglected by mainstream studies on the so-called ‘Indo-Islamic’ architecture, which generally focus instead on northern monuments and in particular on those attributable to the Mughal period. A study of the development of recurring artistic vocabularies, of assimilated models that reached the region through trade and cultural exchange or migratory phenomena, as well as an analysis of the dynamics of patronage, is believed to be able to provide important information about the development of Islamic communities in the region, their religious identity and the historical-political context in which the monuments were patronised.