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Web Pages for Islamic Art



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I shall try to get more sites in the days and weeks to come. If you find a good one, let me know!


General Sites


Dictionary of Islamic Architecture. Great site. Search by letter. Great source page for primary texts on Islam. Met's page on Islamic Art.
A list of all the Islamic Dynasties & rulers with their dates. Useful quick reference. Click on "Middle East Lists", then scroll down for "Islamic Empire" Islamic Arts and Architecture Organization Webpage. Great site with good general resources for introduction to Islamic Art. L. A. County Museum's web site on Islamic Art.
Detroit Institute of Art's web page on Islamic Art. IslamiCity web site on Islamic culture from the past and today. Flashy site. Lots of links for art. Mostly language resources, but scroll to bottom for art links.
Site with some basic tenets of Islam and some pictures. ArchNet's Digital Library. Here featuring articles from Muqarnas, the leading journal if Islamic art, with downloadable texts. ArtLex site on Islamic art. Very nice images of ceramics and more.
Resources and images from the Hermitage Museum in Russia. Some examples of coins, hard to find otherwise. Harvard Library's extensive reference page on Islamic art may provide you with useful citations and reference material when you are researching your final papers. Contemporary Islamic art site.
Chapter from Oleg Grabar's seminal book "The Formation of Islamic Art" here on line. Cal Poly San Luis Opispo Islamic Spain course site. Site mostly on Persian region.
Aga Khan Tour of Islamic Architecture. Great Buildings On Line site for Islamic architecture. Basic information on major structures with short but useful biblioghraphies. MIT site with visual and text resources. Links too.
Basics on the Islamic Faith. Basics on Sunni Law. Lots of great images of the Krak des Chevaliers in Syria. Crusader architecture at its best!


Specific Sites



Calligraphy I. Arabic Calligraphy II. Arabic Calligraphy III.
Arabic Calligraphy IV. Ceramics from museum in Egypt. 16th century Turkish paintings.
An On-line course on Islamic ceramics. Islamic Metalwork. Some irritating ads, but here is a commercial site on Islamic coins with lots of images from all dynasties.
Site on Muqarnas. No link yet. No link yet.


Contemporary Muslim Artists Sites


Even though our course does not deal with contemporary Islamic art--or art in dialogue with the Islamic tradition--you are invited to do your research papers on contemporary or modern artists or architects. Keep in mind some of the research challenges you might encounter by taking on such a topic. These links provide some initial ideas.


Shahzia Sikander site, with clips from PBS Documentary. Another Shahzia Sikander site. Note bibliography at end of essay. Homi Bhabha interviews Shahzia Sikander.
Bomb Magazine article on Sikander. Asia Society piece on Sikander. Iranian Photographer, filmmaker, Video artist Shirin Neshat.
Basic site on Shirin Neshat. Small gallery of Neshat's photography. No link yet.

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