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    The document provides a list of recommended resources for further reading on various topics within Islamic art, including: The mosque and religious architecture, art of the book, gardens, calligraphy, travel and pilgrimage, textiles, and geometry. It includes books on the history and development of these artistic traditions, as well as references to works focusing on specific regions, time periods, and artistic masterpieces. The resources cover a wide range of Islamic art and would be useful for learning more about its diverse forms of visual culture and expression.

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    The document provides a list of recommended resources for further reading on various topics within Islamic art, including: The mosque and religious architecture, art of the book, gardens, calligraphy, travel and pilgrimage, textiles, and geometry. It includes books on the history and development of these artistic traditions, as well as references to works focusing on specific regions, time periods, and artistic masterpieces. The resources cover a wide range of Islamic art and would be useful for learning more about its diverse forms of visual culture and expression.

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    The document provides a list of recommended resources for further reading on various topics within Islamic art, including: The mosque and religious architecture, art of the book, gardens, calligraphy, travel and pilgrimage, textiles, and geometry. It includes books on the history and development of these artistic traditions, as well as references to works focusing on specific regions, time periods, and artistic masterpieces. The resources cover a wide range of Islamic art and would be useful for learning more about its diverse forms of visual culture and expression.

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    The document provides a list of recommended resources for further reading on various topics within Islamic art, including: The mosque and religious architecture, art of the book, gardens, calligraphy, travel and pilgrimage, textiles, and geometry. It includes books on the history and development of these artistic traditions, as well as references to works focusing on specific regions, time periods, and artistic masterpieces. The resources cover a wide range of Islamic art and would be useful for learning more about its diverse forms of visual culture and expression.

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    The text provides a list of recommended resources for further studying various aspects of Islamic art, including architecture, calligraphy, gardens, textiles, geometry, travel and pilgrimage.

    Some of the main architectural features discussed include mosques, religious architecture, and the dome of the rock. Resources focusing on the history, development and styles of mosques across different regions are mentioned.

    Resources mentioned for studying Islamic gardens include books focusing on the history and design of Islamic gardens, as well as gardens and landscape in the Islamic world. Specific garden sites like those in the Ottoman culture are also discussed.

    Islamic Art Spots Further Resources

    Recommended by D. Fairchild Ruggles GENERAL Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, Islamic Arts (Phaidon, 1997) D. Fairchild Ruggles, Islamic Art and Visual Culture: An Anthology of Sources (WileyBlackwell, 2011) Barbara Brend, Islamic Art (Harvard University Press, 1991) Robert Irwin, Islamic Art in Context (Prentice Hall, 1997) Sheila Canby, Islamic Art in Detail (British Museum, 2005) THE MOSQUE AND RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE Martin Frishman and Hasan-Uddin Khan, eds., The Mosque: History, Architectural Development, and Regional Diversity (Thames and Hudson, 2002) Hasan-Uddin Khan and Renata Holod, The Mosque and the Modern World: Architects, Patrons, and Designs since the 1950s (Thames and Hudson, 1997) Oleg Grabar and Said Nuseibeh, The Dome of the Rock (Rizzoli, 1996) George Michell, ed., Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning (Thames and Hudson, 1978) ART OF THE BOOK Jonathan Bloom, Paper before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World (Yale University Press, 2001) Marianna Shreve Simpson, Persian Poetry, Painting, and Patronage: Illustrations in a SixteenthCentury Masterpiece (Yale University Press, 1998) Oleg Grabar, Mostly Miniatures: An Introduction to Persian Painting (Princeton University Press, 2001) Eleanor Sims, Peerless Images: Persian Figural Painting and Its Sources (Yale University Press, 2002)

    Islamic Art Spots Further Resources

    GARDENS D. Fairchild Ruggles, Islamic Gardens and Landscapes (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, eds., Rivers of Paradise: Water in Islamic Art (Yale University Press, 2009) John Brookes, Gardens of Paradise: The History and Design of the Great Islamic Gardens (New Amsterdam, 1990) Nurhan Atasoy, A Garden for the Sultan: Gardens and Flowers in the Ottoman Culture (Aygaz, 2003) Norah Titley and Frances Wood, Oriental Gardens (Chronicle Books, 1991) CALLIGRAPHY Mohamed Zakariya, Music for the Eyes: An Introduction to Islamic and Ottoman Calligraphy (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1998) David Roxburgh, Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Quran (Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 1998) Mary McWilliams and David Roxburgh, Traces of the Calligrapher (Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2008) Abdelkebir Khatibi and Mohammed Sijelmassi, The Splendor of Islamic Calligraphy (Thames and Hudson, 1996) TRAVEL AND PILGRIMAGE Venetia Porter, The Art of Hajj (Interlink, 2012) Ann Parker and Avon Neal, Hajj Paintings: Folk Art of the Great Pilgrimage (American University in Cairo Press, 2009) George Michell, ed., Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning (Thames and Hudson, 1978) Michael Wolfe, One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage (Grove Press, 1998) S. G. al-Quaiti, The Holy Cities, the Pilgrimage, and the World of Islam (Fons Vitae, 2007)

    Islamic Art Spots Further Resources

    TEXTILES Patricia L. Baker, Islamic Textiles (British Museum, 1995) John Gillow, Textiles of the Islamic World (Thames and Hudson, 2010) Walter Denny and Sumru Belger Krody, The Sultans Garden: The Blossoming of Ottoman Art (exhibition catalogue, Textile Museum, 2012) Kjeld von Folsach and Anne-Marie Keblow Bernsted, Woven Treasures: Textiles from the World of Islam (David Collection, 1993) Carol Bier, ed., Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran (exhibition catalogue, Textile Museum, 1987) GEOMETRY Titus Burckhardt, Jean-Louis Michon, and Seyyed Hussein Nasr, Art of Islam: Language and Meaning (World Wisdom, 2009) Keith Critchlow, Islamic Patterns: An Analytical and Cosmological Approach (Inner Traditions, 1999) Eva Baer, Islamic Ornament (New York University Press, 1998) Eva Wilson, Islamic Designs (British Museum Pattern Books, British Museum, 1988)

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