Medieval period

Basin (Baptistère de Saint Louis) (detail) — […]

Mohammed ibn al-Zain, Basin (Baptistère de Saint ...

Mihrab from Isfahan (Iran) (detail) — […]

Mihrab from Isfahan (Iran)

Two Royal Figures, Iran (Saljuq period) (detail) — […]

Two Royal Figures (Saljuq period)

Coronation Mantle (detail) — […]

Coronation Mantle

Folio from a Qur'an, 14th century, ink on paper, 13 1/5. x 5 1/5" (The Brooklyn Museum) — […]

Mamluk Qur’an

"Bahram Gur in a Peasant's House," Folio from the so-called "Second Small Shahnama," early 14th c., ink, opaque watercolors, gold on paper, 6 5/16 x 5 11/16", Ilkhanid Dynasty (Brooklyn Museum of Art) — […]

Bahram Gur in a Peasant’s House, Ilkhanid ...

Court of the Myrtles — […]

The Alhambra

Dado Panel from the Courtyard of the Royal Palace of Mas'ud III of Ghazni, 1112 C.E., marble, 28 1/8 x 12 13/16 x 3 1/2" (Brooklyn Museum of Art) — […]

Dado Panel, Courtyard of the Royal Palace ...

Pyxis of al-Mughira, possibly from Madinat al-Zahra, AH 357/ 968 CE, carved ivory with traces of jade, 16cm x 11.8 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris) (photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) — […]

Pyxis of al-Mughira

Qu'ran fragment, in Arabic, before 911, vellum, MS M. 712, fols 19v-20r, 23 x 32 cm, possibly Iraq (The Morgan Library and Museum, New York) — […]

Folio from a Qur’an

Courtyard, The Great Mosque or Masjid-e Jameh of Isfahan (photo: reibai, CC BY 2.0) — […]

The Great Mosque (or Masjid-e Jameh) of ...

Mihrab (prayer niche), c. 1270, Konya, Turkey, now in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin (photo: Glenna Barlow) — […]

Arts of the Islamic world: The Medieval ...