Traditional and Digital Resources for Study of Islamic Art and Architecture

 The MET’s Watson Library (http://libmma.org/portal/) has excellent resources and is FREE – please register with them and you can order books (you can scan for free too) – very convenient

 Major Encyclopedias and Reference Works

1. Brill’s 2nd Encyclopedia of Islam (Brill online)
2. The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture by J. Bloom and S. Blair (MET has, 3 volumes)
3. Grove Art (online – accessible through CUNY)
4. Cambridge History of Islam – available via the Mina Rees Website (very good historical background)
5. Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. Ed. by Susan Sinclair. 2 vols. Leiden, 2012. (MET has)
6. Creswell, K. A. C. 1961. A bibliography of the architecture, arts, and crafts of Islam to 1st Jan. 1960. [Cairo]: American University at Cairo Press.
   1. There are updates to this
7. Bowker-Saur. 1994. Index Islamicus. East Grinstead, West Sussex, UK: Bowker-Saur. (MET has, online resource)
8. Dictionary of Islamic Architecture, by Andrew Petersen. London, 1996
   1. Can access via archnet.org
9. Dictionnaire des arts de l’islam. Ed. Jean-Paul Roux. Paris, 2007.
10. The Illustrated Ecyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture. Moya Carey. London, 2010.
11. The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects. 4 vols. New York, 1982.
12. Harvard has an excellent guide to major Islamic Art and Architecture annotated bibliography (by subject and geography)

Major Textbooks / Introductory works

1. Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, and Marilyn Jenkins-Madina. The Art and Architecture of Islam: 650-1250. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001.
2. Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom. The art and architecture of Islam 1250-1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
3. Bloom, Jonathan, and Shelia Blair. 2002. Islamic arts. London: Phaidon.
4. Hillenbrand, Robert. 1999. Islamic art and architecture. New York: Thames and Hudson.
5. Hillenbrand, Robert. Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning. Edinburgh and New York, 1994.
6. Grabar, Oleg. 1973. The formation of Islamic art. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Architecture

7. Creswell, K. A. C. A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture. Rev. and suppl. by James W. Allen. Aldershot, 1989.
8. Creswell, K.A.C. Early Muslim Architecture. 2 vols. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1969.
9. Creswell, K. A. C. The Muslim Architecture of Egypt. 2 vols. New York, 1979.
10. Golombek, L., & D. Wilber. The Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan. 2 vols. Princeton, 1988.
11. Goodwin, Godfrey. A History of Ottoman Architecture. Rev ed. New York, 1992.
12. Grube, Ernst J. Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning, With a Complete Survey of Key Monuments. George Michell. London, 1978; reprt. 1984.
13. Hillenbrand, Robert. Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning. Edinburgh and New York, 1994.
14. Koch, Ebba. Mughal Architecture: An Outline of Its History and Development (1526-1858). Munich, 1991.
15. Kuran, Aptullah. Sinan, the Grand Old Master of Ottoman Architecture. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Turkish Studies, and Istanbul: Ada Press, 1987.
16. Meinecke, Michael. Die mamlukische Architektur in Ägypten und Syrien (648/1250 bis 923/1517). 2 vols. Glückstadt, 1992.
17. Michell, George, and Mark Zebrowski. Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates. Cambridge, 1999.
18. Necipoglu, Gülru. The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture. Santa Monica, CA, 1995.
19. O’Kane, Bernard. Timurid Architecture in Khurasan. Costa Mesa, CA, 1987.
20. Pope, Arthur Upham. A Survey of Persian Art. 3rd ed. Ashiya, 1977 (see vol.2 on architecture).
21. Prussin, L. Hatumere. Islamic Design in West Africa. Berkeley, 1986.
22. Sarre, F., & E. Herzfeld. Archäologische Reise im Euphrat- und Tigris-gebiet. 4 vols. Berlin, 1911-20.
23. Wilber, Donald N. The Architecture of Islamic Iran: the Il Khanid Period. Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology, 29, Oriental Studies, 17. Princeton, NJ, 1955.

Major Journals (many journal articles can be interlibrary loaned in a matter of hours / days via the mina rees website)

1. Muqarnas: an annual on Islamic art and architecture. (via jstor)
2. Ars Orientalis
3. Levant
4. Bulletin of American Schools of Oriental Research
5. Damaszener Mitteilungen
6. The Journal of Islamic Archaeology (but just launching)
7. Many journals can be accessed through Persee – a French site (but you can search in English + journals are multi-lingual) http://www.persee.fr/web/guest/home

On Islam

1. Malise Ruthven, Islam a very short introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). – available via the Mina Rees Website
2. Michael Cook, The Koran, a very short introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Digital Resources

**See the section on the course website** – where these are listed with links

Online Resources:

1. Archnet.org – best online resource on Islamic Architecture. Also has images (but dated) –recently redesigned, and the redesign is a pain
2. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History – The Nature of Islamic Art
   1. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/orna/hd_orna.htm
   2. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=Islamic
3. Oxford Bibliographies Online – Islamic Studies, see Islamic Art and Architecture (available through the Mina Rees Website)
4. Bridging Cultures: Muslim Journeys
   1. http://bridgingcultures.neh.gov/muslimjourneys/ – introduction to Islamic Culture and Heritage
5. Manar al-Athar Education Site – http://manar-al-athar-education.org/links/ – has a large list of links for photographic and visual resources, digitized texts, general resources and major organizations
6. Museum without Frontiers – http://www.museumwnf.org/
7. Saudi Aramco World – A free, very good magazine put out by Saudi Aramco:
   1. http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/201401/
   2. has virtual walking tours too (see the link)
8. Ancient World Online – Open Access Resource with resources for Islamic Art and Middle Eastern Studies (http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/) and with a search for islamic: http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/search?q=islamic
9. Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR) – http://amirmideast.blogspot.com/
10. Khan Academy – Arts of the Islamic World
    1. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-islam/beginners-guide-islamic/a/arts-of-the-islamic-world
11. Islamic-Arts.org – http://islamic-arts.org/ (although some text from Wikipedia so be warned)

Visual Resources

1. The Aga Khan Visual Collection at MIT – http://dome.mit.edu/handle/1721.3/45936
2. Manar Al-Athar (open access multi-media resource for the study of the Middle East) http://www.manar-al-athar.ox.ac.uk/ – specifically – http://www.manar-al-athar.ox.ac.uk/photolinks.html
3. http://www.3dmekanlar.com/sites.html for 3-D tours of major mosques and other important sites
4. org via the Mina Rees Website
5. Creative Commons Image SearchL http://search.creativecommons.org/
6. Creswell Archive – http://creswell.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/
7. Historical Environmental Image Resource (HEIR) Project – http://heir.arch.ox.ac.uk/pages/home.php
8. Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/) and NYPL (http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/) have historic (19^th C) images of certain major site

 

Museum Sites

1. Met Museum – http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hi/te_index.asp?i=Islamic
   1. Very good short introductory essays on many topics and objects
   2. Also you can download some of their publications for free (like the entire book on Islamic Art in Al-Andalus)
2. Brooklyn Museum of Art: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/arts_of_the_islamic_world
   1. With blog posts
3. LA County Museum of Art – Introductory Essays
   1. http://www.lacma.org/islamic_art/islamic.htm
   2. the collection: http://collections.lacma.org/search/site/?front=1&f[0]=bm_field_has_image%3Atrue&f[1]=im_field_curatorial_area%3A45
4. V&A (London) – http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/i/islamic-middle-east/
   1. Some excellent essays on specific topics and bibliographies
5. British Museum – https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/cultures/middle_east/islamic_middle_east.aspx
   1. Has some basic introductory essays
6. Museum without Frontiers – http://www.museumwnf.org/
7. Louvre Museum:
   1. http://www.louvre.fr/en/departments/islamic-art
   2. highlights: http://www.louvre.fr/en/departments/islamic-art/highlights#tabs
8. Doha Museum of Islamic Art – one of the great new collections of Islamic Art
   1. http://www.mia.org.qa/en/collections
9. Aga Khan Museum – reopening in 2014 and has catalogs that can be downloaded and good short descriptions of objects.
   1. http://www.akdn.org/museum/

Projects

1. Khirbet el-Majfar Project – http://www.jerichomafjarproject.org/
2. Ancient Merv Project – http://www.ucl.ac.uk/merv
3. Samarra – http://community.dur.ac.uk/derek.kennet/samarra.htm
4. Samarra Finds Project – http://samarrafindsproject.blogspot.com/
5. The Monuments of Syria – http://monumentsofsyria.com/

Cultural Heritage Organizations / Projects focused on Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Syria

1. ASOR – Syrian Heritage Initiative – http://www.asor-syrianheritage.org/
2. APSA2011 – Association for the Projection of Syrian Archaeology – http://apsa2011.com/apsanew/
3. Heritage for Peace Now – http://www.heritageforpeace.org/
4. Monuments of Syria – Monument Damage – http://monumentsofsyria.com/syria-conflict/

Professional Organizations

Historians of Islamic Art Association – http://www.historiansofislamicart.org/

College Art Association – http://www.collegeart.org/

ASOR – http://www.asor.org/

Archaeological Institute of America – http://archaeological.org/