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A guide to sources of information on Islamic art produced in Muslim countries from Spain to India, including architecture, metalwork, textiles, illustrated books, calligraphy, glass, pottery and decorative arts from the seventh century A.D. to the nineteenth century.

Good introductory texts include:

The art and architecture of Islam, 650-1250.

The art and architecture of Islam, 1250-1800.

Books may be found in the UBC Library catalogue searching by subject headings such as:

• Architecture, Islamic
• Architecture, Ottoman
• Art, Islamic
• Art, Mogul
• Calligraphy, Islamic
• Civilization, Islamic
• Decoration and ornament, Islamic
• Decorative arts, Islamic

• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Islamic
• Inscriptions, Islamic
• Islam and architecture
• Islam and art
• Islamic antiquities - place name (Islamic antiquities - Cairo)
• Islamic art and symbolism
• Mogul Empire
• Mosques

Or by medium:

• Miniature painting, Islamic
• Painting, Islamic
• Pottery, Islamic
• Rugs, Islamic
• Textile fabrics, Islamic
  

• Isfah¯an (Iran)
  

• Alhambra (Granada, Spain)

Annual bibliography of Islamic art and archaeology, India excepted . . .

A bibliography of the architecture, arts and crafts of Islam to lst Jan. 1960.

Dictionary catalog of the Library of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

International medieval bibliograph. (online)

Cambridge history of Islam.

Dictionary of Islamic architecture.

Encyclopedia of world art.

Grove art online.

International dictionary of architects and architecture.

Islamic desk reference / compiled from The Encyclopedia of Islam.

The Islamic dynasties; a chronological and genealogical handbook.

The Muslim almanac : a reference work on the history, faith, culture, and peoples of Islam.

Ris¯ale-i mi`m¯ariyye : an early seventeenth-century Ottomon treatise on architecture.

The Mosque, Cordoba.
© Allan Langdale

Cultural atlas of Islam.

Historical atlas of Islam.

Anthropology plus. Late nineteenth century-

Art Full Text. 1984-

Art index retrospective. 1929-1984

Avery architectural index. 1934-,Selective coverage from 1860s.

Bibliography of the history of art. 1973- .

Historical abstracts. 1954-

Index Islamicus. 1906-

Periodica Islamica. (print) 1991-1995

Archives of Asian art. 1945/6-

Ars Islamica. 1934-1951

Ars orientalis; the arts of Islam and the East. 1954-

Arts of Asia. 1971-

Bulletin of the Asia Institute. 1987-

Islamic art. 1981- 2001

Exhibition and collection catalogues received after 1985 are listed online in the UBC Library catalogue by title, subject, or name of the gallery or museum.

Exhibition and collection catalogues received before 1985 are listed in the Exhibitions Card Catalogue. Exhibition catalogues are listed by gallery name or subject of the exhibition. Check relevant headings such as:

• Art, Islamic
• Burlington Fine Arts Club

Small catalogues under twenty-five pages and without call numbers are filed in the AArP vertical files by the name of the gallery or museum. Ask at the Art + Architecture + Planning Reference Desk to obtain this material.

• Art, Islamic - Exhibitions

Or names of museums, such as:

• Ashmolean Museum
• Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul
• Victoria and Albert Museum

To locate collections of Islamic art, look at:

• Islamic art collections : an international survey.

ARTstor Digital Library (online)

Great buildings collection [electronic resource]
Includes photographic images, drawings, textual commentary and interactive 3-dimensional models of buildings represented.

Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain (online)

Islamic art; one hundred plates in colour.

Sculpture index.
Look under Islamic in vol. 2:2

World architecture index; a guide to illustrations.
Arranged by site, type of building or name.

Arrows courtesy of Coolarchive.com.