The Mediterranean and its Milieu 1450-1700

ISLAMIC ART

• • Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517 A.D.)
  • Nasrid Period (1232 - 1492 A.D.)
  • Timurid Period (ca. 1370 - 1507 A.D.)
  • Mughals before 1600 A.D.
  • Ottomans before 1600 A.D.
  • Safavids before 1600 A.D.
  • The Age of Süleyman "the Magnificent" (r. 1520 - 1566 A.D.)
• Discover Islamic Art (through Museum With No Frontiers)
  • Algeria
  • Egypt
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Jordan
  • Morocco
  • Palestinian Authority
  • Portugal
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Syria
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • United Kingdom
• Islamic Art (126 selected works) in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris, including
  • Mamluks, Mongols, and Timurids (16 works)
  • The Caliphate Period (30 works)
  • Modern Empires (51 works)
  • Turks, Mongols, and the Muslim West (29 works)
• Persian Art Through The Centuries (through IranSaga, Persian History and Culture)
  • The Safavids -1
  • The Safavids -2
  • Zand & Qajar Periods -1
  • Zand & Qajar Periods -2
  • Zand & Qajar Periods -3
  • Zand & Qajar Periods -4
• • Late Medieval Period (Mid-Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century)
  • Images
    • 
      Late Medieval Art
    • Late Islamic Art
  • Dynasties
  • Glossary
  • Map
• Islamic Art & Culture (through IslamiCity), with links to:
  • Art of the Mamluks
  • Islamic Calligraphy
  • Mosques Around the World, with links to:
    • Makkah
    • Madinah
    • Jerusalem
    • Africa
    • America
    • Asia
    • Europe
  • Taj Mahal
• Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel (through Places of Peace and Power, Martin Gray)
• Islamic Architecture (through Essential Architecture)
  • Islamic Architectural History
    • Israel and Palestine
    • Jordan
    • Turkey
    • Syria
    • Egypt
    • Morocco
    • Tunisia
    • Iraq
    • Iran
    • Uzbekistan
    • Pakistan
• Islamic Architecture (part of 40 Centuries of Architecture, through Thais)
  • Localities Index
  • Subject Index
  • Periods Index
• Pattern in Islamic Art (The David Wade Photo Archive, with FREE download of over 4000 images of patterns and other design features drawn from the rich cultural heritage of the Islamic world)
  • Photo Archive
    • Slideshows
    • Main Archive by Region
    • Peripheral Material
    • Museums
    • Other Browse Options (medium/material, architectural feature, decorative canon, regions, towns, monuments)
  • The Origins and Significance of the Decorative Arts in Islam (Background Notes)
  • Drawings and Analyses
  • Published Material
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
• Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain (University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center)
• The Islamic Collections in The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
  • The Arab Collection
  • The Qur'an Collection
  • The Persian Collection
  • The Turkish Collection
  • The Mughal-Era Indian Collection
• Islamic Art - Introduction (through the Los Angeles County Museum of Art), with additional links to:
  • Early Islamic Period
  • Early Medieval Period
  • Late Medieval Period
  • Late Islamic Period
• The Islamic Collection, from the 7th to the 19th centuries (in The David Collection, Copenhagen)
  • Islamic art organized according to dynasty and geography
  • Islamic art grouped according to material
  • Islamic art presented in its cultural context
• Islamic Art, beginning with the Abbasid caliphate, in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Iran
  • Egypt
  • Syria
  • Turkey
• Islamic Art in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• The Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
• The Hamzanama (The Adventures of Hamza) (online exhibition at the The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC)