Research Guide

Islamic Art
Resource List | June 2013

F72-32 Footed Bowl, 13th century, Persian, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

49-85 Couple Standing Among Flowering Trees, ca. 1480, Persian Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

This guide is designed to provide additional resources for those wishing to learn more about Islamic Art. In this bibliography we have included general works that provide an introduction to Islamic art as well as additional resources exploring Islamic art in its many diverse manifestations from painting, architecture, manuscripts and calligraphy to decorative arts and gardens. In the section Cultural Context, resources examining the relationship between Islamic Art and the spiritual and cultural context that inspires its creation are highlighted. Resources included in this guide provide a historic and visual introduction to the varied expressions of Islamic Art and a framework for engaging with the contemporary Islamic artists featured in the exhibition. If you have questions, please contact the reference staff at the Spencer Art Reference Library (telephone: 816.751.1216). Library hours and services are listed on the librarys webpage at nelsonatkins.org/library Selected by | Amelia Nelson, Public Services Librarian Roberta Wagener, Library Assistant, Public Services

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Search Terms Use these keywords to explore the librarys catalog at libraryonesearch.nelson-atkins.org

Art, Ottoman

Art, ArabMiddle East

Islamic Illumination of Books and Manuscripts

ArtMiddle East
Art, Mogul

Islamic Architecture

Islamic Art

Introduction to Islamic Art Arthur M. Sackler Museum, and Mary McWilliams. In Harmony: The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art. Cambridge: Harvard Art Museum, 2013. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6263.C35 A78 2013 Atasoy, Nurhan, Michael Rogers, Afif Bahnassi, and -Michael Rogers. The Art of Islam. Paris: Unesco, 1990. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6260 A83 1990 Atil, Esin. The Age of Sultan Sleyman the Magnificent. Washington: National Gallery of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 7165 .A85 1987 Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. Beauty in Arabic Culture. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1999. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: BH 221 .A65 B44 1999 University of Michigan. Bibliography of Asian Studies. Last modified December 20, 2012. http://bmc.lib.umich.edu/bas *In-Library Use Only Brill Academic Publishers. Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill, 2004. CD-ROM. Available on the Spencer Art Reference Library Reading Room computers. *In-Library Use Only

Ettinghausen, Richard, Oleg Grabar, and Sheila Blair. The Art and Architecture of Islam 650-1250. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1987. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: Reading Room N 6260 .E791 2001 Blair, Sheila, Jonathan Bloom, and Richard Ettinghausen. The Art and Architecture of Islam 12501800. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 1994. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: Reading Room N 6260 .B56 1994 Blair, Sheila, Jonathan Bloom, Kjeld von Folsach, Nancy Netzer, and Claude Cernuschi. Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen. Chestnut Hill, MA: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2006. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6264 .D4 C67 2006 Bloom, Jonathan, and Sheila Blair. The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: Reading Room N 6260 .G75 2009 v.1-3 Bloom, Jonathan and Sheila Blair. Islamic Arts. London; Phaidon Press, 1997. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6260 .B57 1997 Brend, Barbara. Islamic Art. London: British Museum Press, 1991. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6260 B73 1991

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Canby, Sheila R. Islamic Art in Detail. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2005. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6260 .C37 2005 Canby, Sheila R. Shah Abbas: The Remaking of Iran. London: British Museum Press, 2009. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: DS 292.6 .C36 2009 Curtis, John and Nigel Tallis. Horse and History: From Arabia to Ascot. London: British Museum, 2012. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 7668 .H6 C87 2012 The David Collection. Islamic Art. Accessed April 30, 2013 http://www.davidmus.dk/en/collections/islamic Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. Shangri-la: A Center for Islamic Arts and Cultures. Accessed May 8, 2013. http://shangrilahawaii.org/DDFIA/ Connect to working papers, symposia, publications and archives at: http://shangrilahawaii.org/Research/ Freer/Sackler: The Smithsonians Museums of Asian Art. Gallery Guide: Arts of the Islamic World. Accessed April 30, 2013 http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/isla mic/default.htm Freer/Sackler: The Smithsonians Museums of Asian Art. Collections: Arts of the Islamic World. Accessed August 26, 2012. http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/islamic.asp Grabar, Oleg. Early Islamic Art, 6501100. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate/Variorum, 2005. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6260 .G723 2005 Grabar, Oleg. The Formation of Islamic Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6260 .G69 1987

Grabar, Oleg. Islamic Art and Beyond. Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT: Ashgate Variorum, 2006. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6260 .G724 2006 Grabar, Oleg. Islamic Visual Culture, 1100 1800. Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6260 .G7242 2006 Grube, Ernst J. The World of Islam. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6260 .G77 1967 Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture, Sheila Blair, and Jonathan Bloom. And diverse are their hues: color in Islamic art and culture. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2011. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6260 .H36 2011 Irwin, Robert. Islamic Art in Context: Art, Architecture, and the Literary World. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6260 .I75 1997 Koch, Ebba. Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology: Collected Essays. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 7302 .K64 2001 Komaroff, Linda, and Sheila Blair. Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts. [Los Angeles]: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011 Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NK 720 .G54 2011 Komaroff, Linda and Stefano Carboni. The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 12561353. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 7283 .L44 2002
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Kronemer, Alexander, Michael Wolfe, Robert Gardner, Char Gardner, Carrie Gardner, and Susan Sarandon. Islamic Art Mirror of the Invisible World. [Potomac Falls, Va.]: Unity Productions Foundation, 2011. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: Multimedia N6260 .I853 2011 Lentz, Thomas W. and Glenn D. Lowry. Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 7291 .L46 1989 Mellins, Thomas, Donald Albrecht, Deborah Pope, Linda Komaroff, and Tim Street-Porter. Doris Duke's Shangri La: A House in Paradise : Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NA7511.4.H66 D67 2012 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Thematic Essays: Islamic Art, 93 articles, 2000-2012. Accessed August 26, 2012. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index .asp?i=Islamic The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Nature of Islamic Art." In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. Accessed May 8, 2013 http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/orna/h d_orna.htm Metropolitan Museum of Art and Maryam Ekhtiar. Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6263.N4 M47 2011 Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art of the Islamic World: A Resource for Educators. Accessed May 6, 2013. http://www.metmuseum.org/learn/foreducators/publications-for-educators/art-ofthe-islamic-world

Mozzati, Luca. Islamic Art: Architecture, Painting, Calligraphy, Ceramics, Glass, Carpets. Munich: Prestel, 2010. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6260 .M6913 2010 Muse du Louvre. Department of Islamic Art. Accessed June 29, 2013. http://www.louvre.fr/en/departments/islamicart O'Kane, Bernard. The Iconography of Islamic Art. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6260 .I36 2005 Oxford University Press. Oxford Art Online. Accessed June 28, 2013. http://www.oxfordartonline.com *In-Library Use Only Rice, David Talbot. Islamic Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 1975. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6260 R52 1975 Rogers, J.M. Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Collection of Nasser D. Khalili. Geneva: Muse dart et dhistoire; London: Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions, 1995. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6264 .G7 L667 1995 Roxburgh, David J. Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 6001600. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2005. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 7161 .T87 2005 Rosser-Owen, Mariam. Islamic Arts from Spain. London: V&A Pub., 2010. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6270 .R67 2010 Thompson, Jon and Shelia R. Carnby. Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Safavid Iran 15011576. Milan: Skira; New York: Distributed in North America and Latin America by Rizzoli, 2003. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 7283 .H86 2003
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Welch, Stuart Cary. India: Art and Culture, 1300 1900. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1995. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 7301 .W45 1985 Contemporary Art & Artists Abbas, Hamra, Anita Dawood, and Sharmini Pereira. Hamra Abbas: Object Lessons. London: Green Cardamom, 2009. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 7310.73 .A23 A4 2009 ABBAS Akram, Asheer. Asheer Akram. Accessed May 1, 2013. http://asheerakram.com/ Al-Ziad Aseeri, Ahmed Mater, Edward BoothClibborn, and Stephen A. Stapleton. Ahmed Mater. London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2010. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N7272.A88 A4 2010 AL-ZIAD ASEERI AHMED MATER ART21. Shahzia Sikander. ART21, Inc., 2012. Accessed May 1 2013. http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/shahziasikander/videos Babaie, Sussan, Shirin Neshat, Rebecca R. Hart, and Nancy Princenthal. Shirin Neshat. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 2013. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 7289.N47 A4 2013 NESHAT SHIRIN Berry, Ian, Shahzia Sikander, and Jessica Hough. Shahzia Sikander: Nemesis. Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, 2004. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 7310.73 .S57 A4 2004 SIKANDER SHAHZIA Daftari, Fereshteh, Homi Bhabha and Orhan Pamuk. Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2006. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6497 .D34 2006

Eigner, Saeb. Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran. London, New York: Merrell, 2010. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 7265 .E44 2010 Grey Noise. Ayesha Jatoi. Grey Noise, 2011. Accessed May 1, 2013. http://www.greynoise.org/Biography.aspx?AI D=3 Hashmi, Salima, and Naazish Ata-Ullah. Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan. New York: Asia Society Museum, 2009. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 7310.7 .H37 2009 Neshat, Shirin, Susan Edelstein, Jacqueline Larson, and Ahmad T. Shirin Neshat "Women of Allah," April 25June 7, 1997, Artspeak Gallery. Vancouver, B.C.: Artspeak Gallery, 1997. *on order 6.28.13 Porter, Venetia, Isabelle Causs and Saeb Eigner. Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East. London: British Museum Press, 2006. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 7265 .P67 2006 Rana, Rashid. Perpetuel Paradoxe. *in process Salem, Nassar Al. Nassar Al Salem. Edge of Arabia, 2013. Accessed May 1 2013. http://edgeofarabia.com/artists/nasser-al-salem Saatchi Online. Gohar Dashti. Saachi Online, 2013. Accessed May 1 2013. http://www.saatchionline.com/gohardashti Stapleton, Stephen A., Edward Booth-Clibborn, Aya Mousawi, Abdullah Al-Turki, and Miriam Lloyd-Evans. Edge of Arabia. London: United Kingdom: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2012. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N7270 .E34 2012

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Painting Barry, Michael A., and Bihzad. Figurative art in medieval Islam and the riddle of Bihzad of Herat (14651535). Paris: Flammarion, 2004. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: ND 3241 .B37 2004 Beach, Milo Cleveland, Stuart Cary Welch and Glenn D. Lowry. The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India, 16001660. Williamstown: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1978. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: ND 1002 .B4 1978 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. From the Land of the Taj Mahal: Paintings for Indias Mughal Emperors in the Chester Beatty Library. Exhibition March 21, 2009 June 14, 2009. Accessed August 26, 2012. nelsonatkins.org/art/Exhibitions/Mughal/index.cfm Seyller, John William and W.M. Thackston. The Adventures of Hamza: Painting and Storytelling in Mughal India. Washington: Freer Gallery of Art; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; London: Azimuth, 2002. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: ND 3399 .Q5 S49 2002 Welch, Stuart Cary. Persian Painting: Five Royal Safavid Manuscripts of the Sixteenth Century. New York: G. Braziller, 1976. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: ND 3241 .W44 Welch, Stuart Cary, Sheila R. Canby and Nora Titley. Wonders of the Age: Masterpieces of Early Safavid Painting, 15011576. Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1979. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: ND 3241 .W442 1979 Architecture Bloom, Jonathan. Early Islamic Art and Architecture. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6260 .E18 2000

Frampton, Kenneth, Charles Correa, and David G. Robson. Modernity and Community: Architecture in the Islamic World. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NA 2335 .F73 2002 Grabar, Oleg. Jerusalem. Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NA 5978 .J4 G733 2005 Hamdouni Alami, Mohammed. Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition Aesthetics, Politics and Desire in Early Islam. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 6260 .H25 2011 Koch, Ebba. The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra. London: Thames & Hudson, 2006. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NA 6183 .K63 2006 Petersen, Andrew. Dictionary of Islamic Architecture. London; New York: Routledge, 1996. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: Reading Room NA 380 .P48 1999 Petruccioli, Attilio and Khalil K. Pirani. Understanding Islamic Architecture. London, New York: RoutlegeCurzon, 2002. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NA 380 .U53 2002 Stierlin, Henri, and Anne Stierlin. Islamic Art and Architecture: from Isfahan to the Taj Mahal. London: Thames & Hudson, 2002. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: Folio N 6260 .S75 2000 Yeomans, Richard. The Story of Islamic Architecture. New York: New York University Press, 2000. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NA 380 .Y46 2000

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Manuscripts & Calligraphy Blair, Sheila. Islamic Calligraphy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NK 3636.5 .A2 B53 2006 Gray, Basil and O.F. Akimushkin. The Arts of the Book in Central Asia, 14th16th Centuries. Boulder: Shambhala Publications, 1979. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: ND 3244 .A77 1979 Khatibi, Abdelkebir, and Mohamed Sijelmassi. The Splendor of Islamic Calligraphy. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NK 3636.5 .A2 K372 2001 Masud, Hasan. The Calligrapher's Garden. London: SAQI, 2012. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NK3633.M37 A4 2012 McWilliams, Mary, and David J. Roxburgh. Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, C. 16001900. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2007. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NK 3636.5 .A2 M39 2007 Portor, Venetia, and Heba Nayel Barakat. Mightier Than the Sword: Arabic Script : Beauty and Meaning. [Kaula Lumpur]: the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, 2004. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NK 1270 .M54 2004 Porter, Venetia, and Isabelle Causse. Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East. London: British Museum Press, 2006. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: N 7265 .P67 2006 Welch, Stuart Cary. A Kings Book of Kings: The Shah-nameh of Shah Tahmasp. London: Thames and Hudson in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1972. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: ND 3399 .F5 W4

Wright, Elaine Julia. Muraqqa Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. Alexandria: Art Services International, 2008. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: ND 3247 .W75 2008 Decorative Arts Bier, Carol. Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16th 19th Centuries. Washington: Textile Museum, 1987. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NK 2809 .P4 W68 1987 Broug, Eric. Islamic Geometric Patterns. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NK 1570 .B76 2008 Carvalho, Pedro de Moura, Henrietta Sharp Cockrell, and Stephen Vernoit. Gems and Jewels of Mughal India: Jewelled and Enamelled Objects from the 16th to 20th Centuries. London: Nour Foundation; Oakville: Distributed in North American by the David Brown Book Co., 2010. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: Folio NK 7376 .A1 C37 2010 Fehrvri, Gza. Ceramics of the Islamic World: In the Tareq Rajab Museum. London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 2000. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NK 3880 .F44 2000 Gillow, John. Textiles of the Islamic World. London: Thames & Hudson, 2010. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NK 8973 .G55 2010 Masud, Hasan. The Calligrapher's Garden. London: SAQI, 2012. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NK 3633.M37 A4 2012 Walker, Daniel S. Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1997. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NK 2876 .W36 1997

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Watson, Oliver. Ceramics from Islamic Lands. London: Thames & Hudson, in association with the al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar alIslamiyyah, Kuwait National Museum, 2004. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NK 3880 .W37 2004 Gardens Brooks, John. Gardens of Paradise: The History and Design of the Great Islamic Gardens. New York: New Amsterdam, 1987. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: SB 457.8 .B76 1987 Conan, Michel, ed. Middle East Garden Traditions: Unity and Diversity: Questions, Methods and Resources in a Multicultural Perspective. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: SB 457.8 .D86 2007 Ruggles, D. Fairchild. Islamic Gardens and Landscapes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: SB 457.8 .R8452 2008 Cultural Context Bloom, Jonathan, and Sheila Blair. Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. Spencer Art Reference library Call No: BP 55 .B57 2002 Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Islamic Art and Spirituality. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: NX 688 .A4 N369 1990 Wright, Elaine Julia. Islam: Faith, Art, Culture: Manuscripts of the Chester Beatty Library. London: Scala, 2009. Spencer Art Reference Library Call No: ND 2955 .W75 2009

Journals Ars Islamica Spencer Art Reference Library Collection: Serials Holdings: v.1 (1934)v.16 (1951) Ars Orientalis: the Arts of Islam and the East Spencer Art Reference Library Collection: Serials Holdings: v.1 (1954)present (Current Subscription) Hali: The International Journal of Oriental Carpets and Textiles. Spencer Art Reference Library Collection: Serials Holdings: v.3 no.2 (1980)present (Current Subscription) Muquarnas. Spencer Art Reference Library Collection: Serials Holdings: v.1 (1983)present (Current Subscription) Explore More Search the librarys collections at libraryonesearch.nelson-atkins.org Ask Us Spencer Art Reference Library Staff is happy to help nelson-atkins.org/library SpencerArtReferenceLibrary

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