Islamic
The spiritual and cultural traditions that shape art of the Islamic world often include an emphasis on beauty and devotion in calligraphy, painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, and metalwork, and have developed across diverse regions and over 14 centuries.
Islamic
The spiritual and cultural traditions that shape art of the Islamic world often include an emphasis on beauty and devotion in calligraphy, painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, and metalwork, and have developed across diverse regions and over 14 centuries.
Basics to get you started
Arts of the Islamic world
Mosque architecture, an introduction
Common types of mosque architecture
Gold in the Qur’an
Arts of the Islamic world: The early period
Mosaics in the early Islamic world
Paintings in the early Islamic world
The Umayyads, an introduction
The vibrant visual cultures of the Islamic West, an introduction
Arts of the Abbasid Caliphate
Arts of the Islamic world: The medieval period
Cross-cultural artistic interaction in the Middle Byzantine period
Musical imagery in the Global Middle Ages
Pilgrimage souvenirs
Illumination of Jewish biblical texts
Illumination of the Qur’an
Arts of the Islamic world: The later period
Sultanate art and architecture, an introduction
Mamluk bindings
The rise of the Ottoman Empire
The Safavids, an introduction
The court carpets of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires, an introduction
The Mughal painting tradition, an introduction
Exploring color in Mughal paintings
European engravings and Christian symbols in the Mughal miniature painting tradition
A Mughal masterclass: how to make paint pigments from stones
Photographic views of 19th-century India, an introduction
Systems of work: the caste system and organized labor
Coins of faith and power at the British Museum
The rise and fall of the Mongol Empire
The complex geometry of Islamic design
The fall of the Ottoman Empire
Installing galleries of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Cairo Geniza: medieval preservation and reuse
Muqarnas, an introduction
Islam, an introduction
Works of Art
Artists
Pyxis of al-Mughira, possibly from Madinat al-Zahra, AH 357/ 968 C.E., carved ivory with traces of jade, 16 x 11.8 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Periods, Cultures, Styles
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Umayyad
661–750
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Abbasid
750–1258
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Samanid
809–1005
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Fatimid
909–1171
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Ghaznavid
977–1186
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Seljuq
1040–1307
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Ayyubid
1171–1260
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Delhi and Deccan Sultanates
13th–late 17th century
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Nasrid dynasty
1232–1492
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Mamluk Sultanate
1250–1517
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Ilkhanid
1258–1335
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Ottoman
1298–1924
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Timurid
1370–1506
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Cirebon Sultanate
c. 16th–17th century
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Safavid
1501–1736
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Mughal
1526–1858
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Qajar
1779–1909
