Themes

• African Art
• Ancient American Art
• Ancient Near Eastern Art
• Arms and Armor
• Asian Art
• China
• Japan
• Korea
• South and Southeast Asia
• Byzantine Art
• Colonial Art of the Americas
• Costume
• Egyptian Art
• European Art
• European Art in the Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Baroque and Rococo
• Nineteenth Century
• Twentieth Century
• Greek and Roman Art
• Islamic Art
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• Musical Instruments
• Oceania, Arts of
• Photography
• Prehistory
• United States, Arts of
• Nineteenth Century
• Twentieth Century
• General Information

Islamic Art

• Bloom, Jonathan, and Sheila Blair. Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power. New York: TV Books, 2000.

  This history of the first thousand years of Islamic civilization, presented in a clear and concise yet lively manner, is intended for the nonscholar. Includes a glossary, bibliography, and index.

• ________. Islamic Arts. London: Phaidon, 1997.

  Professors Blair and Bloom define and elaborate on the arts of the Islamic world in this excellent, readable, and well-illustrated introduction to the subject. Includes a bibliography, index, and other useful appendices.

• Carboni, Stefano, and David Whitehouse. Glass of the Sultans. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002.

  Featuring more than 150 glass objects representing twelve centuries of Islamic glassmaking, this beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue includes essays on the history and techniques of glassmaking. Includes a glossary, bibliography, and index.

• Esposito, John L., ed. The Oxford History of Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  This extensive and authoritative volume is a notable chronicle of the full spectrum of Islamic civilization, from its beginnings to the end of the twentieth century. Includes many illustrations, a detailed bibliography, a chronology, and an index.

• Ettinghausen, Richard, Oleg Grabar, and Marilyn Jenkins-Madina. Islamic Art and Architecture, 650–1250. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

  Written by well-known scholars, this amply illustrated overview of the Islamic art and architecture of Spain, Africa, and the Middle East, from its beginnings to the mid-thirteenth century, is a well-balanced account that makes the age and its art come alive for the student and the general reader. Includes a glossary and bibliography.

• Sims, Eleanor, with Boris I. Marshak and Ernst J. Grube. Peerless Images: Persian Painting and Its Sources. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

  The entire history of Persian figural painting is captured in this abundantly illustrated survey. The book is divided into two sections: an historical overview from pre-Islamic times to the nineteenth century and a section devoted to significant themes in Iranian art. Includes an extensive bibliography and index.

• Stierlin, Henri. Islamic Art and Architecture. London: Thames & Hudson, 2002.

  Stierlin, an architectural historian, has written a lavishly illustrated overview of Islamic art and architecture, with detailed presentations on nine masterpieces of Islamic architecture, including the Friday Mosque in Isfahan and the Taj Mahal in Agra. Includes a glossary, bibliography, and index.