81. Islamic Art - Discover The Precious Collection Of Islamic Art Now Available To Y islamic art Discover the Internet web portal providing you with the treasured pieces of islamic art sitting at the comfort of your preffered place. http://talkislam.com/islamic-art.htm

Islamic Art Islamic art - Home Islamic art - About Site Islamic art - Islamic World Islamic art - organizations ... Islamic art - Guestbook Your prolonged search for a place to learn about Islamic art has finally reached an end. TalkIslam is the site to help you with whatever you ever wanted to know about Islamic art. To help people with the study of Islamic art, Talkislam.com , an Internet web portal, directory and search engine has been introduced on the Internet. It contains a library of sites helping you to utilise the Internet to the fullest for performing extensive research on Islamic art along with helping you to get aquainted with the Islamic World The site provides you with the resources and a market place about Islamic art. You can also submit your URL to add your site to our database and register yourself with our guestbook Along with the study of Islamic art, you also get to know about the different organizations related to and working for the Muslim religion from this site. The site also aims at several other objectives, all related to the betterment of the Muslim religion.

82. West To Meet East At Exhibition Of Rare Islamic Art (washingtonpost.com) West to Meet East At Exhibition of Rare islamic art The National Gallery s exhibit is part of a flurry of shows dealing with islamic art. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6625-2004Mar18.html

thisNode = 'world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post'; commercialNode =''; var SA_Message="SACategory=" + thisNode; PRINT EDITION Subscribe to NEWS OPINION ... REAL ESTATE SEARCH: Top 20 E-mailed Articles washingtonpost.com World Europe ... Post West to Meet East At Exhibition of Rare Islamic Art By Jacqueline Trescott Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, March 19, 2004; Page C01 Starting in July, the National Gallery of Art will display rare Islamic art from the Victoria and Albert Museum, its first major display of art from the Arab world in 17 years. The rare traveling show, which will be announced today, was possible because the London museum is building a new gallery for its Middle Eastern artifacts. The Victoria and Albert, founded in 1851, is considered the foremost museum of decorative arts in the world, and its holdings of Islamic materials go back to the 10th century. "Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art From the Victoria and Albert Museum," a collection of 120 pieces, will open July 18 and close in February before going to Fort Worth, Tokyo and Sheffield, England. The centerpieces will be a 20-foot pulpit commissioned by Sultan Qait Bay in the 15th century for a mosque in Cairo, as well as carpets from Iran and Turkey. "This is an opportunity for the gallery to showcase one of the greatest collections of Islamic art in the world. It covers a whole range from paintings to textiles to carpets, metalwork, glass, all that visual culture," said Earl A. Powell III, the National Gallery director.

83. Christie's - Islamic Art & Manuscripts islamic art Manuscripts Including Property from the Theodor Sehmer Heidi Vollmoeller Collections And The Clive of India Treasure Sale 6895 27 April 2004, 10 http://www.christies.com/promos/apr04/6895/overview.asp

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84. Interlink: Islamic Art And Architecture The Islamic Interlink. Islam and islamic art and Architecture. Subtopics. Poetry. Related Topics Photos Multimedia. Islamic Arabic http://www.ais.org/~islam/subject/art.html

The Islamic Interlink : Islamic Internet Directory and Search Ramadhan Eid Hajj Prayer Times ... Islam and... Islamic Art and Architecture Subtopics Poetry Related Topics: http://www.islamicart.com/ - English Very extensive site with writings and images on architecture, Arabic script and calligraphy, coins, carpets, history, and more. Also has extensive bibliographies Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah http://www.al-muslim.org/madinah/m_top.htm - English Technical information on Madinah, as well as distinctive virtues of the city, and over a dozen unique pictures Isfahan Home Page http://www.anglia.ac.uk/~trochford/isfahan.html - English See the minarets, mosques, and other architecture of Isfahan. Also discusses fundamentals of Persian architecture Mosques Around the World http://www.uah.edu/msa/mosques.html - English Paintings of various mosques from around the world Al-Andalus Architecture Image Gallery http://www.islamzine.com/art/gallery.html - English Islamic Art http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/eco/ - English DIA: Galleries: Ancient Art - Islamic Art http://www.dia.org/galleries/ancient/islamicart/islamicart.html -

85. Turkish Odyssey/About Turkey/Anotolian Culture/Islamic Arts Part 9 islamic art, DOWN. islamic art, The Islamic style is distinguished by the novelty and extraordinary quality of techniques http://www.turkishodyssey.com/turkey/culture/islamart.htm

Contents of this Page Islamic Art Calligraphy Miniature Painting Ceramic Tiles of Iznik ... Ebru (Paper Marbling) Part 9 Islamic Art DOWN ISLAMIC ART The Islamic style is distinguished by the novelty and extraordinary quality of techniques used in the making of utilitarian objects. These techniques include the application of lustrous glazes and rich colors in ceramics and glassware; intricate silver inlays that transform the surfaces of bronze metalwork; lavish molded stucco and carved wood wall panels; and endlessly varied motifs woven into textiles and rugs. In nearly all instances the objects decorated—whether ewers, cooking cauldrons, candlesticks, or pen cases—served fundamentally practical purposes; their aesthetic effect was aimed above all at making the daily activities or architectural setting more pleasurable. In the Moslem world a concrete message is transmitted through its abstract forms. The Moslems tended to reject the representation of the visible in their art to emphasize that visible reality is but an illusion and that Allah alone is true. Abstraction thus became a way to make a very specific theological point.

86. Globalist PhotoGallery | Islamic Art And Architecture islamic art and Architecture From Isfahan to the Taj Mahal. Accordingly, what is increasingly overlooked is Islam s long history of peace and exquisite art. http://www.theglobalist.com/photo/islamart/stierlin.shtml

Home Media Features Press Room Research Center ... About Us The Globalist and Education Initiative Advisory Board Regular Features Employment ... Newsletter sign-up E-Store Books CDs Photography Deutsch ... Français Best of 2003 Top 10 Books Top 10 Photo Books Top 10 Stories Africa ... United States Globalization and ... Children Companies Culture Development ... Women Globalist PhotoGallery Photographs C Islamic Art and Architecture Photographs by Anne and Henri Stierlin Published by 292 pages. approx. 500 color photographs Dimensions (in inches): 1.06 x 14.54 x 9.92 Order this book Enter gallery Islamic Art and Architecture: From Isfahan to the Taj Mahal Much of what is discussed about Islam today is pockmarked by misunderstandings, assumptions and notions of terrorism and violence. Accordingly, what is increasingly overlooked is Islam's long history of peace and exquisite art. Indeed, in the thousand years following the revelations to the Prophet Muhammad in Mecca, artists and craftsmen in the areas dominated by Islam produced some of the world's most beautiful works of art.

87. IMAGE Series Volume 7 - Islamic Art And Ancient Near East islamic art From IMAGE Series Volume 7 islamic art and Ancient Near East Copyright 1999, The Multimedia Library. This page contains http://www.multimedialibrary.com/FramesML/IM7/IM7.html

Islamic Art From IMAGE Series Volume 7: Islamic Art and Ancient Near East This page contains thumbnail images from the Islamic Art section of the IMAGE Royalty Free CD-ROM Volume 7: Islamic Art and Ancient Near East from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Click on a thumbnail or a photograph name to view a somewhat larger JPEG image of the photograph. Slides are available from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Photograph and Slide Library; 1000 Fifth Avenue; New York, New York; 10028-0198. Buy the entire CD-ROM for $99.00. (Free shipping and handling.) Page 1 of 13 Go to page: Photo Thumbnail Photo Title A Koran Bottle - 18th century Bottle - handblown glass Bracelet - 18th Century ... Site Map document.write ('') Email Us Free Downloads Sign Our Guestbook Site Design Credits Last Updated: Friday, September 26, 2003 by Diana Schwartz

88. BRIEF HISTORY OF ISLAMIC ART SHORT ESSAY ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF islamic art TO ARCHITECTURE, POTTERY, CARPET MAKING, PAINTING, METAL WORKING AND SILKS. islamic art http://www.youngartists.com/islamic.htm

Islamic Art: I slamic art is often defined in art books as being an art whose boundaries are not geographical but theological. That is, this style of art called Islamic, was produced in many different geographic regions whose diverse cultures were unified through the religion of Islam. This is correct. Then these same books typically cite the Islamic ban on figural representation as a defining characteristic of the style. Next, they give some explanation as to why they believe that figural art was created in these areas, anyway. Finally, they go on to discuss the figural pieces right alongside the non-figural pieces as examples of Islamic Art. This is incorrect. The Islamic religion still forbids the representation of figures and so, naturally, to call any art which contains figural representation "Islamic", is erroneous and offensive to Moslems (believers). For this reason, on this site at least, we will make a distinction between the figural representations (see miniature painting ) and the non-figural pieces, which may be properly termed and discussed as Islamic art. A New Culture I slam began as a religious movement in early 7th century Arabia and quickly spread throughout the Middle East. Before the next century Muslems had conquered and converted Byzantium and Persia, as well as parts of Asia, Africa and Europe. For the next six centuries, until the Mongol nomads sacked the Muslem capital of Baghdad in 1258, the nation of Islam was the world's largest empire and the site of a great cultural flowering.

89. The State Hermitage Museum: Collection Highlights art of the Near East is represented in the museum by an excellent collection regarded as the earliest precisely dated bronze object from the islamic period. http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_5_5.html

Abbasid caliphate Iran Egypt Syria Turkey Art of the Near East is represented in the museum by an excellent collection covering the 7th to19th centuries which includes several exquisite masterpieces. For instance, a small group of metal artifacts from the time of the Abbasid caliphate in Iran includes some unique bronze vessels, including an aquamanile in the form of an eagle, regarded as the earliest precisely dated bronze object from the Islamic period. If you enjoyed this collection, you might want to also visit the other collections at the State Hermitage Museum. Oriental Coins The Golden Rooms Aquamanile in the Form of an Eagle Master Suleiman Larger view Image Usage Policy. About the Site

90. The KHALILI Collections The Khalili Collections of islamic, Japanese, Spanish and Swedish Textile art http://www.nourfoundation.org/

91. Grabar. Ceremonial And Art Ceremonial and art at the Umayyad Court. Most studies of islamic political theory are based on texts which are not earlier than the eleventh century, and which http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/grabar1.html

Oleg Grabar. Ceremonial and Art at the Umayyad Court. PhD Dissertation, Princeton Univ 1955. Chpt. I. The Umayyad Royal Idea and its Expression under Mu'awiyah I. Beginning with pg. 18. The development of ceremonial which expresses the position of the ruler in any time or any realm must necessarily relate to the growth of a political idea. The development of royal ceremonial under the Umayyads goes hand in hand with the formation of the theory of the caliphate, which, since Arnold's study, badly needs revision. Most studies of Islamic political theory are based on texts which are not earlier than the eleventh century, and which attempt to formulate a theory of authority according to what it should be and should have been under Islamic law. The only really accurate sources for a true understanding of the political theory of the early Islamic dynasties are recorded in incidents which reveal the underlying political philosophy which may or may not have been expressed, but for which we have no direct evidence. Later, under Hisham, the argument progressed a step further. A certain Qiyam ibn-Shaqi, the Himyarite, asked the caliph: "O Commander of the Faithful, who is more honorable (akram), your successor (khalifah) over the people or your messenger (rasul) to them? The Commander of the Faithful answered: Of course my successor over my people. Ibn-Shaqi retorted: But you are the successor of God (khalifat allah) while Muhammad is only his messenger..." Here we reach the final point of the rationalization by the Umayyads of their power. The caliphate is by its very nature, so to speak semantically, seen as superior first to the prophetic office, and then to Muhammad himself, the prophet par excellence.

92. Cleveland Museum Of Art - Explore The Ancient & Islamic Collections Ancient islamic. Link to magnified view of this image. Displaying 19 of 1291 works. Images Copyright © The Cleveland Museum of art 2001. http://www.clevelandart.org/Explore/department.asp?level=2&deptgroup=9

93. ArtServe At The Australian National University: Http://rubens.anu.edu.au Welcome to artServe art Architecture of Islam. The Home Page for rubens is here. There is now sufficient islamic material on this http://rubens.anu.edu.au/indexislam.html

Welcome to ArtServe: of Islam The Home Page for rubens is here There is now sufficient Islamic material on this server to warrant a separate page (although everything is still available via the Home Page and its search facilities). Subject categories , mostly from museums: arms and armour in Turkey: istanbul calligraphy in Turkey: istanbul (and here ), and in konya ceramics in egypt: cairo (and here england france portugal ; and turkey: iznik konya coins in Egypt: cairo metalwork in Egypt: cairo england france germany ... switzerland , turkey: istanbul and konya museums in cairo england france germany ... iznik and konya portugal sicily spain sculpture in Spain: cordoba textiles (includes carpets) in Egypt: cairo (and here england france germany ... sicily , Turkey: istanbul (also here ), and in konya Surveys: Islam: Prisse d'Avennes' plates of architecture in Cairo (with a summary of his life here I am grateful for permission to add to this site a copy of Prof James A. Harrell: Decorative Stones in the pre-Ottoman Islamic Buildings of Cairo , which users might wish to consult in combination with my images of Cairo Architecture: Modest amounts of Islamic architecture appear in Mediterranean architecture alphabetically by site or by country or by type Ebersolt's 1913 Les Eglises de Constantinople appears here because so many of them survived as mosques;

94. AL-Quran THE Criterion, International Islamic Propagation Center Organization promoting the Ayats of Allah. You are invited to visit the site, listen to the lectures and ask questions of the speaker. http://www.the-quran.org/

95. An Authentic Islamic Website Hopes to provide the most authentic information on Islam. http://www.angelfire.com/ak4/hafiz30/

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96. THAIS.IT - Architettura A photographic guide to Egyptian, Greek, islamic and Romanesque architecture, indexed by localities, subjects and periods. http://www.thais.it/architettura/default_uk.htm

1200 years of Sculpture Entomology Botany Itineraries and tourism ... HomePage Egyptian architecture Localities Index Subjects Index Periods Index Greek architecture Localities Index Subjects Index Periods Index Roman Architecture Periods Index Localities Index Subjects Index Gothic Architecture Introduction Localities Index Periods Index E-mail Frimart srl Milano Islamic architecture Localities Index Subjects Index Periods Index Romanesque architecture Localities Index Subjects Index Periods Index Byzantine Architecture Periods Index Localities Index Subjects Index Armenian Architecture Introduction Map Index With the collaboration of the Center Studies and Documentation of the Armenian Culture http://www.csdca.it/

97. Central Bank Of The Islamic Republic Of Iran Responsible for Iranian monetary policy. Features a profile, an overview of services, details about currency and daily financial news. http://www.cbi.ir/

98. Arabic Calligraphy By Rasheed Butt Samples of the work of a calligrapher from Islamabad, who works in both Arabic and Persian, on religious and poetic texts. Includes biography. http://www.rasheedbutt.com/

For years I have been an admirer of Rasheed Butt's calligraphies. At a time when many calligraphers strive to create new and unusual forms, he has perfected the classical style in a unsurpassable way. His naskh is masterly, and the combination of naskh and kufi, as e.g. in his superb rendering of Surat ur rehman, is unique. Lately Mr. Butt has concentrated upon composing hilya, the time honoured description of the beauty of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), using the three extant descriptions and writing them in both nashk and nastaliq in a style and shape worthy of their noble contents. A special feature of Rasheed Butt's calligraphies is the ornamentation in golden hues and colours with most subtle arabesques, reviving the most delicate designs. We hope that the Pakistani master calligrapher will live for many many years to fill the world with the beautiful designs of his miracle-working pen so that we can admire through him the quintessential Islamic art, that of calligraphy, which developed due to the wish to write the word of God as beautifully as possible. Does not the tradition state: "Verily God is beautiful and loves beauty?" It is this beauty which can be sensed through Rasheed Butt's art, the cultural background of the spectator notwithstanding. Professor Dr. Annemarie Schimmel, Bonn, August 1999

99. Islamic Poems Site dedicated to islamic poetry from Allama Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Yunus Emre, and Jahaluddin Rumi. http://members.tripod.com/~NasirS/poems.html

var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "tripod.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" S a l a m A l a i k u m May allah find you in the best of Iman! This Page is dedicated to Islamic poetry and literture. Islamic poetry is made up of many different types of styles that reflect the poets beliefs and inshallah this page will contain poetry from all styles from sufi's to modern poets Islamic Poetry Allama Sir Muhammad Iqbal Poet of early 20th century, He was a major contributer in establishing Pakistan as an Islamic state. Yunus Emre The most significant literary figure of Turkish Anatolia to assimilate the teachings of Islam. Jahaluddin Rumi Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi is one of the great spiritual masters and poetical geniuses of mankind and was the founder of the Mevlevi Sufi order, a leading mystical brotherhood of Islam. Mirza Ghalib One of the greatest poets of all times, he was great philosopher and literary genius. Visitor

100. OUT THERE NEWS Translations of stories by media with sources inside Afghanistan, including the Afghan islamic Press (AIP), Wahdat and Sahaar newpapers. http://www.megastories.com/attack/aip/aipindex.shtml

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