Detail, Kneeling Angel with Cup and Bottle, attributed to Shah Quli. Turkey, Ottoman period, mid-16th century. Ink, color, and gold on paper. Purchase FGA.

General

Atil, Esin. Art of the Arab World. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, 1975.

Brend, Barbara. Islamic Art. London: British Museum, 1991.

Ettinghausen, Richard and Oleg Grabar. The Art and Architecture of Islam, 650-1250.

Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1987.

Grube, Ernst J. The World of Islam. London: P. Hamlyn, 1966.

Komaroff, Linda. Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum: the Historical Context. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992.

Lewis, Bernard, et al. The World of Islam. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976.

Architecture

Allen, Terry. A Catalogue of the Toponyms and Monuments of Timurid Herat. Cambridge, Mass.: Terry Allen, 1981.

Hoag, John. Islamic Architecture. New York: Abrams, 1975.

Koch, Ebba. Mughal Architecture: An Outline of its History and Development, 1526-1858. Munich: Prestel, 1991.

Pope, Arthur Upham. Persian Architecture: The Triumph of Form and Color. New York: G. Braziller, 1965.

Ceramics

Allan, James W. Islamic Ceramics. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1991.

Atil, Esin. Ceramics from the World of Islam. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1973.

Grube, Ernst J. Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection. London: Faber and Faber, 1976.

Lane, Arthur. Early Islamic Pottery. London: Faber and Faber, 1947.

Metal-work

Atil, Esin, W. Thomas Chase and Paul Jett. Islamic Metalwork from the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, 1985.

Baer, Eva. Metalwork in Medieval Islamic Art. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983.

Melikian-Chirvani, Assadullah Souren. Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World: Eighth Through Eighteenth Centuries. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982.

Painting and calligraphy

Fu, Shen, Glenn D. Lowry and Ann Yonemura. From Concept to Context. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, 1986.

Grube, Ernst J. The Classical Style in Islamic Painting. Venice: Edizioni Oriens, 1968.

Khatibi, Abdelkebir and M. Sijelmassi. The Splendour of Islamic Calligraphy. New York: Rizzoli, 1976.

Rogers, J. M. Mughal Miniatures. London: British Museum Pr., 1993.

Welch, Anthony. Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World. New York: Asia Society, 1979.

Textiles

Kuhnel, Ernst and Louisa Bellinger. Catalogue of Dated Tiraz Fabrics, Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid. Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1952.

Rogers, Clive, ed. Early Islamic Textiles. Brighton: Rogers & Podmore, 1983.

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