Islamic Studies: a Bibliography (books—in English)

VIII - The Arts: Alexander, David. The Arts of War: Arms and Armour of the 7th to 19th Centuries (The Nasser D.Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Vol. XXI). London: The Nour Foundation, 1992.

Ali, Wijdan.Modern Islamic Art: Development and Continuity. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1997.

Ali, Wijdan and S. Bisharat, eds.Contemporary Art from the Islamic World . Northampton, MA: Interlink Publ. Group, 1990.

Allan, James W.Metalwork from the Early Islamic Period. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981.

Allan, James W., ed.Islamic Art in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Allan, James, et al., eds.Persian Steel: The Tanavoli Collection (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Amin, Mohamed.The Beauty of Makkah & Madinah. Northampton, MA: Interlink Publ. Group, 2000.

Arberry, A.J.Islamic Art of Persia. New Delhi: Goodword Books, 2001.

Ardalan, Nader and Laleh Bakhtiar.The Sense of Unity: The Sufi Tradition in Persian Architecture. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1973.

Arnold, Sir Thomas.Painting in Islam. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1928.

Asani, Ali A. and Kamal Abdel-Malek.Celebrating Muhammad: Images of the Prophet in Popular Muslim Poetry. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.

Asher, Catherine B.Architecture of Mughal India. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Atil, Esin.Levni and the Surname: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Festival. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2000.

Baer, Eva.Islamic Ornament. Washington Square, NY: New York University Press, 1998.

Baker, Patricia L.Islam and the Religious Arts. Continuum Int’l Publ., 2003.

Barry, Michael.Figurative Art in Medieval Islam and the Riddle of Bīzhād of Heart. New York: Flammarion, 2003.

Bates, Michael and Elizabeth Savage.Dinars and Dirhams, Coins of the Islamic Lands: The Early Period. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Bayani, Manijeh, et al.The Decorated Word: Qur’ans of the 17th to 19th Centuries (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Vol. IV). London: The Nour Foundation, 1998.

Beach, Milo Cleveland.Early Mughal Painting. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Beach, Milo Cleveland.Mughal and Rajput Painting. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Beach, Milo Cleveland, Ebba Koch and Wheeler M. Thackston.The King of the World—The Padshahnama: An Imperial Mughal Manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1997.

Becker, Judith.Gamelan Stories: Tantrism, Islam, and Aesthetics in Central Java. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University Program for Southeast Asian Studies, 1993.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris.Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction (Studies in Islamic Art and Architecture, Vol. 3). Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1997 ed.

Bellamy, James A., et al., eds.Literary Heritage of Classical Islam: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Honor of James A. Bellamy. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1993.

Blair, Shiela S. A Compendium of Chronicles: Rashid al-Din’s Illustrated History of the World (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Vol. XXVII). London: The Nour Foundation, 1995.

Blair, Sheila S.Islamic Inscriptions. Washington Square, NY: New York University Press, 1998.

Blair, Sheila S.The Monumental Inscriptions from early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana (Studies in Islamic Art and Architecture, Vol. 5.). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991.

Blair, Sheila S. and Jonathan M. Bloom.The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250-1800. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.

Blair, Sheila S. and Jonathan M. Bloom.Images of Paradise in Islamic Art. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1991.

Bloom, Jonathan M., ed.Early Islamic Art and Architecture. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.

Bloom, Jonathan and Sheila Blair.Islamic Arts. London: Phaidon Press, 1997.

Bravmann, René.Islam and Tribal Art in West Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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

Burckhardt, Titus.The Art of Islam: Language and Meaning. London: World of Islam Festival            Publ. Co., 1976.

Bürgel, J.C.The Feather of Simurgh: The “Licit Magic” of the Arts in Medieval Islam. Washington Square, NY: New York University Press, 1988.

Carboni, Stefano.Glass from Islamic Lands: The Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait National Museum. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.

Carboni, Stefano, et al.Glass of the Sultans. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.

Clévenot, Dominique and Gérard Degeorge.Splendors of Islam: Architecture, Decoration and Design. New York: The Vendome Press, 2000.

Contadini, Anna.Fatimid Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1998.

Creswell, K.A.C.Early Muslim Architecture, 2 Vols. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1932-1940.

Critchlow, Keith.Islamic Patterns: An Analytical and Cosmological Approach. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1999.

Degeorge, Gerard and Yves Porter.The Art of the Islamic Tile. Paris: Flammarion, 2002.

Deroche, Francois.The Abbasid Tradition: Qur’ans of the 8th to 10th Centuries AD (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Vol. I). London: The Nour Foundation, 1992.

Diba, Layla S., Maryam Ekhtiar and B.W. Robinson, eds. Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar  Epoch, 1785-1925. London: I.B. Tauris, 1998.

El-Said, Issam and Ayse Parman.Geometric Concepts in Islamic Art. London: Scorpio Publ., 1990.

Ettinghausen, Richard, Oleg Grabar, and Marilyn Jenkins-Madina.The Art and Architecture of Islam, 650-1250. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2nd ed., 2001.

Farsi, Hani M.S.Jeddah, City of Art: The Sculptures and Monuments. Boston, MA: Interlink Publ. Group, 1991.

Fehérvári, Géza.Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000.

Field, Robert.Geometric Patterns from Islamic Art & Architecture. Norfolk, England: Tarquin Publ., 1999.

Flood, Finbarr Barry.The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Making of an Umayyad Visual Culture. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2001.

Frishman, Martin and Hasan-Uddin Khan, eds.The Mosque. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1994.

Gonzalez, Valerie.Beauty and Islam: Aesthetics in Islamic Art and Architecture. London: I.B. Tauris, 2001.

Goodwin, Godfrey.A History of Ottoman Architecture. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2003.

Grabar, Oleg.The Formation of Islamic Art. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2nd ed., 1987.

Grabar, Oleg.The Great Mosque of Isfahan. Washington Square, NY: New York University Press, 1990.

Grabar, Oleg.Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988.

Grube, Ernst J.*Cobalt and Lustre: The First Centuries of Islamic Pottery (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Vol. IX). * London: The Nour Foundation, 1995.

Grube, Ernst J. and Eleanor G. Sims, eds.Islamic Art: A Biennial Dedicated to the Art and Culture of the Muslim World, 1990-1991. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Grube, Ernst J. and Eleanor G. Sims, eds.Islamic Art 5: Studies on the Art and Culture of the Islamic World. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Helms, Svend*. Early Islamic Architecture of the Desert: A Bedouin Station in Eastern* Jordan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990.

Hillenbrand, Robert.Islamic Architecture: Form, Function, and Meaning. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Hillenbrand, Robert.Islamic Art and Architecture. London: Thames & Hudson, 1998.

Hoag, John D.Islamic Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 1975. Howard, Deborah. Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture, 1100-1500. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.

Hutt, Antony.North Africa: Islamic Architecture. Northampton, MA: Interlink Publishing Group, 1998.

Hutt, Antony and Leonard Harrow.Islamic Architecture: Iran, 2 Vols. Northampton, MA: Interlink Publ. Group, 1990.

Irwin, Robert.Islamic Art in Context :Art, Architecture and the Literary World. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997.

James, David.After Timur: Qur’ans of the 15th and 16th Centuries. London: The  Nour Foundation (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art), 1992.

James, David.The Master Scribes: Qur’ans of the 11th to 14th Centuries AD (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Vol. II). London: The Nour Foundation, 1992.

Kalter, Johannes.The Arts and Crafts of Turkestan. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1985.

Kasam, Kutub, ed.Shimmering Light: An Anthology of Ismaili Poetry. London: I.B. Tauris with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 1996.

Khalili, Nasser D.,  B.W. Robinson and Tim Stanley.Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part One (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Vol. XXII). London: The Nour Foundation, 1996.

Khalili, Nasser D., B.W. Robinson and Tim Stanley. Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part Two (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Vol. XXII). London: The Nour Foundation, 1997.

Khatibi, Abdelkebir and Mohammed Sijelmassi.The Splendor of Islamic Calligraphy. London: Thames & Hudson, 1996.

Koch, Ebba.Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology: Collected Essays. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Kritzeck, James, ed.Anthology of Islamic Literature: From the Rise of Islam to Modern Times. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

Kritzeck, James, ed.Modern Islamic Literature from 1800 to the Present. New York: Holt, Rinehart    and Winston, 1970.

Kröger, Jens. Nishapur:Glass of the Early Islamic Period. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.

Leach, Linda.Paintings from India (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Vol. VIII). London: The Nour Foundation, 1998.

Lifchez, Raymond, ed.The Dervish Lodge: Architecture, Art, and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.

Lowry, Glenn D. An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection, a Jeweler’s Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1988.

Meinecke, Michael. Patterns of Stylistic Changes in Islamic Architecture: Local Traditions versus Migrating Artists. Washington Square, NY: New York University Press, 1996.

Michell, George and Mark Zebrowski.Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Michell, George, ed.Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1995.

Michell, George, ed.The Islamic Heritage of Bengal. Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 1984.

Mir, Mustansir, trans. and ed.Tulip in the Desert: A Selection of the Poetry of Muhammad Iqbal. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000.

Moynihan, Elizabeth B.Paradise as a Garden: In Persia and Mughal India. New York: George Braziller, 1980.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.Islamic Art and Spirituality. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1987.

Necipoglu, Gülru.Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992.

Necipoglu, Gülru, ed.Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997.

Nelson, Kristina.The Art of Reciting the Qur’an. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1986.

Nicholson, R.A.Studies in Islamic Poetry. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1921.

Parker, Ann and Avon Neal.Hajj Paintings: Folk Art of the Great Pilgrimage. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.

Pedersen, Andrew.Dictionary of Islamic Architecture . New York: Routledge, 1996.

Petruccioli, Attilio, ed.Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires: Theory and Design. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997.

Pickett, Douglas.Early Persian Tilework: The Medieval Flowering of Kāshī. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997.

Prussin, Labelle.Hatumere: Islamic Design in West Africa. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986.

Renard, John.Islam and the Heroic Image: Themes in Literature and the Visual Arts. Columbia, SC     University of South Carolina Press, 1993.

Rice, David Talbot.Islamic Art. London: Thames & Hudson, revised ed., 1999.

Ruggles, D. Fairchild.Gardens, Landscapes, & Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.

Safadi, Yasin Hamid.Islamic Calligraphy. London: Thames & Hudson, 1987.

Safwat, Nabil F.The Art of the Pen: Calligraphy of the 14th to 20th Centuries (The Nasser D.Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Vol. V). London: The Nour Foundation, 1996.

Safwat, Nabil F.Golden Pages: Qur’ans and Other Manuscripts from the Collection of Ghassan I. Shaker. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Salameh, Khader.The Qur’an Manuscripts in the Al-Haram Al-Sharif Islamic Museum, Jerusalem.  Paris: United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2001.

Schimmel, Annemarie.Calligraphy and Islamic Culture. Washington Square, NY: New York University Press, 1984.

Schimmel, Annemarie.Islam in India and Pakistan. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1982.

Sells, Michael A.Stations of Desire: Love Elegies from Ibn ‘Arabi and New Poems. Jerusalem: Ibis Editions, 2000.

Shokoohy, Mehrdad. Bhadresvar:The Oldest Islamic Monuments in India. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988.

Simakoff, N.Islamic Designs in Color. New York: Dover, 1993 (first published by the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, 1883).

Soucek, P.P., ed.Content and Context of Visual Arts in the Islamic World. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988.

Soudavar, Abou and Milo Cleveland Beach.Art of the Persian Courts: Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection. New York: Rizzoli, 1993.

Stierlin, Henri and Anne Stierlin. Islam: Early Architecture from Baghdad to Jerusalem and Cordoba. New York: Taschen America, 1996.

Stierlin, Henri and Anne Stierlin (photographers). Islamic Art and Architecture: From Isfahan to the Taj Mahal. London: Thames and Hudson, 2002.

Stierlin, Henri and Anne Stierlin.Splendors of an Islamic World. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

Stronge, Susan.Painting for the Mughal Emperor: The Art of the Book, 1560-1660. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2002.

Tabbaa, Yasser.The Transformation of Islamic Art during the Sunni Revival. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2002.

Vernoit, Stephen, ed.Discovering Islamic Art: Scholars, Collectors and Collections. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000.

Vernoit, Stephen.Occidentalism: Islamic Art in the 19th Century (The Nasser D. Khalili  Collection of Islamic Art, Vol. XXIII). London: The Nour Foundation, 1997.

Ward, Rachel.Islamic Metalwork. London: Thames & Hudson, 1993.

Welch, Anthony.Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1979.

Welch, Stuart Cary.The Islamic World. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987.

Wilkinson, Charles K.Nishapur: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974.