a collection of notes on areas of personal interest
Search the Islamic design study pages
- Arabic / Islamic design
- Islamic architecture
- Islamic urban design – page 1
- Islamic urban design – page 2
- Islamic urban design – page 3
- Islamic gardens
- Gulf architecture – page 1
- Gulf architecture – page 2
- Gulf architecture – page 3
- Environmental control
- Perception
- Arabic geometry
- A new approach
- Al Salata al jadida
- Pressures for change
- Society
- Glossary
- References
- Addendum – history
- Addendum – geography
- Addendum – population
- Addendum – boats
- Addendum – old Qatar
- Addendum – security
- Addendum – protection
- Addendum – design brief
- Addendum – design elements
- Links to other sites
Links relating to Arabic / Islamic design
There are many sites on the Internet that might be of interest or of use to those researching Arabic and Islamic design. Some of them are general in scope but the majority focus, as does mine, on more specific areas.
In the process of working on architecture and planning in Qatar I have carried out considerable research including, more recently, visiting many Internet sites. I have found little of use to me due to the small focus of my interest but I thought it might be useful to others if I set out links to the sites I have found interesting.
The sites listed below are not intended to be a complete resource; there are thousands of sites out there. So omission of an important site does not imply anything other than that I’ve not yet found it or that I did, but didn’t bookmark it, or did bookmark it but can’t find it again, or…
The list was up to date when I posted this page. Should you find a site no longer there I would be grateful if you would inform me. I would also be interested for direction to any other site you may feel should be added. So, in no particular order:
- Academic
- Religious architecture and Islamic cultures
- The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts
- Intute – an online Academic resource for education and research
- Arabic typewriter layout
- Typewriter layout – [German]
- Art galleries and museums
- Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar
- The Louvre – Islamic Art
- Metropolitan Museum – Islamic Art
- The Detroit Institute of Arts
- The British Museum
- Berlin museum of Islamic Art
- Victoria and Albert Museum – Jameel gallery
- Ashmolean Museum – The Creswell Archive
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Islamic art
- Hermitage Museum – Oriental art
- Freer Sackler Museum – Arts of the Islamic world
- Calligraphy and museums
- Dr Ahmed Moustapha
- Expert calligraphy
- Arabic calligraphy
- M J Alhabeeb
- Compendium of Muslim texts
- Private calligraphy collection
- Hamid Ajami
- Calligraphic form – [German]
- Islamic calligraphy
- Flickr – calligraphy
- Arabic typography
- Tarek Atrissi Design
- Islamic calligraphy
- Arabic calligraphy – [German]
- Soraya Syed
- Arabesque graphics
- Commercial
- Anthony Ralph Gallery – Islamic tilework
- Broug atelier
- Bonner design consultancy
- Visualdhikr – and see the blog
- Construction
- British-Yemeni society
- Discussion groups
- Islamic art and architecture discussion group
- Environmental
- Sabkha and desert soils
- Fonts
- Arabic and Iranian fonts
- General background
- Archnet
- Islamic Art Network
- Harvard College Library – Reference tools
- Muslim Heritage
- Historians of Islamic Art
- Institut du Monde Arabe – [French / English / Arabic]
- Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
- Islamic architecture
- Organisation for Islamic architecture
- Muslim heritage
- CSBE
- Aga Khan Visual Libraries – MIT
- Islamic architecture introduction
- Discovering Islamic Art
- Heritage of Qatar
- Genealogy
- Genealogy of the Al Thani family
- Glossary
- Islamic terms and concepts
- Iranian architecture
- Fundamental concepts of Iranian architecture
- Isphahan – the making of a film
- Iraqi architecture
- Resources
- Islamic architecture
- Religious architecture
- Art history resources
- Al Bab – Islamic architecture introduction
- Islamic art
- Islamic architecture
- Great buildings – Islamic
- Islamic art
- Islamic Art History
- Islamic art
- Geometry and ornament
- Three-dimensional decoration
- Islamic images
- Gallery – Islamic images
- Symmetry and pattern in carpets
- Flickr – patterns
- Maqarnas patterns
- Islamic resources
- Islamic resources
- Journals
- Al Serat Journal of Islamic Studies
- Panoramas
- Panoramas in Egypt and Syria
- Panoramas – 360°
- The Great Mosque at Cordoba
- The Bayezid Mosque at Istanbul
- Personal sites
- Ahmed Moustafa – calligrapher
- Sakkal design
- Islamic woodwork
- Thomas Weil – [German]
- Aerosol Arabic
- Zarah Hussain
- Islamic and geometric art
- Ian Whiteman
- Adam Williamson
- Ibrahim abu Touq – calligrapher
- Photographic sources
- Photographs from Cairo
- Gertrude Bell photographic collection
- Architectural Association Photo Library
- Images from Lebanon and the Levant
- Qatar gallery
- Al Ashidda
- Specific architecture
- The city of al Zahra
- Fes medina houses
- Fes medina houses blog
- Saudi Aramco subject articles
- Walking tour of the Al Hambra
- History of Islamic Art and architecture
- Additional resources
- Flickr – worth searching by place and subject
Search the Islamic design study pages
- Arabic / Islamic design
- Islamic architecture
- Islamic urban design – page 1
- Islamic urban design – page 2
- Islamic urban design – page 3
- Islamic gardens
- Gulf architecture – page 1
- Gulf architecture – page 2
- Gulf architecture – page 3
- Environmental control
- Perception
- Arabic geometry
- A new approach
- Al Salata al jadida
- Pressures for change
- Society
- Glossary
- References
- Addendum – history
- Addendum – geography
- Addendum – population
- Addendum – boats
- Addendum – old Qatar
- Addendum – security
- Addendum – protection
- Addendum – design brief
- Addendum – design elements
- Links to other sites