Islamic Studies: Art and Architecture

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A database of digital images and accompanying scholarly information for use in art history funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

University of Wisconsin Online Digital Collections

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The leading architecture reference site on the web. Can search by Buildings, Architectural Types (Islamic), or Places (select a country), or do a Quick Search ( "mosque").

Website says, "The Fine Arts Library's visual collections now contain more than 150,000 photographs and slides documenting Islamic art and architecture, as well as ethnographic views that provide cultural context."

A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. Select a time period, scroll to bottom and select Islamic Art.

Includes Groves Art Online

Provides links for Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism.

ArchNet is an international online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, conservationists, and scholars, with a focus on Muslim cultures and civilisations

The evolution of Islamic civilisation from the first appearance of Islam up to the Ottoman period and the corresponding development of Islamic art up to the 19th century are demonstrated by more than 8,000 works of art, including ceramics, gold, metalwork, textiles and glass, smaller groupings of bone objects, inscribed funerary steles and weaponry, as well as the marble-faced interior of a reception room from a 17th-century Cairo mansion.

From its own website: “Welcome to H-Islamart, promoting high standards of scholarship and instruction in the history of Islamic Art “

This website is conceived as a companion to the Islamic galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Intended as a general introduction to Islamic art, it draws upon examples from the museum’s comprehensive collection, which includes works from an area extending from southern Spain to Central Asia, ranging in date from the seventh century up to the present day.

Focusing specifically on the cultural background for art in the Islamic world, this site illustrates fourteen themes, such as The Five pillars of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad, Mecca and the Kaaba, Trade, and Medicine, with a selected group of objects, acco

Discover Islamic Art contains 1235 artefacts from 40 museums, monuments and archaeological sites from 14 countries and 18 Exhibitions

Over 200 manuscripts, chiefly in Arabic but also include Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and other languages of the Islamic world. They date from the early centuries of Islam through the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Most of the manuscripts originated in Arabia,

Adeane Alpert Bregman
Head, Bapst Art Library
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA

Several thousands photographs of the more than 400 Islamic monuments surviving in Cairo are now available for browsing and more are being added.

Photographs from the Creswell Collection in the Rare Books and Special Collections Library of the American University in Cairo and the Islamic Art Network (IAN) Photo Archive.

Bulletins of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l’Art Arabe

Published online in association with the Rare Books and Special Collections Library (RBSC) in the American University of Cairo

A digital archive that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Creswell's Photographs range from al-Andalus to Iraq, from the late seventh century to the eighteenth, mostly of the architecture of Egypt and the Levant between the 12th-15th centuries. Most were taken in the second quarter of the 20th century.

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