a collection of notes on areas of personal interest
Islamic design
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- Introduction
- Arabic / Islamic design
- Arabic / Islamic geometry 01
- Arabic / Islamic geometry 02
- Arabic / Islamic geometry 03
- Arabic / Islamic geometry 04
- Islamic architecture
- Islamic urban design 01
- Islamic urban design 02
- Islamic urban design 03
- Islamic urban design 04
- Islamic urban design 05
- Arabic / Islamic gardens
- Gulf architecture 01
- Gulf architecture 02
- Gulf architecture 03
- Gulf architecture 04
- Gulf architecture 05
- Gulf architecture 06
- Gulf architecture 07
- Gulf architecture 08
- Infrastructure development
- The building industry
- Environmental control
- Perception
- The household on its lot
- A new approach – conceptual
- A new approach – principles
- A new approach – details
- Al Salata al jadida
- Public housing
- Expatriate housing study
- Apartment housing
- Pressures for change
- The State’s administration
- Society 01
- Society 02
- Society 03
- Society 04
- Society 05
- Society 06
- History of the peninsula
- Geography
- Planning 01
- Planning 02
- Population
- Traditional boats
- Boat types
- Old Qatar 01
- Old Qatar 02
- Security
- Protection
- Design brief
- Design elements
- Building regulations
- Glossary
- Glossary addendum
- References
- References addendum
- Links to other sites
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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, bearing in mind that this is not a commercial site. So, in no particular order:
- academic
- 4ddoha – Professors Rami el Samahy and Kelly Hutzell and their research team.
- Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain
- Search engines for online Academic education and research
- Religious architecture and Islamic cultures
- The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts
- arabic typewriter layout
- Typewriter layout
- Virtual typewriter keyboard
- Virtual typewriter keyboard
- Virtual typewriter keyboard
- 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, typography 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
- Khatt Foundation – Center for Arabic Typography
- commercial
- Anthony Ralph Gallery – Islamic tilework
- Bonner design consultancy
- Broug atelier
- Roger Burrows – Mathematics meets art and architecture
- Sandy Kurt – How to get started with Islamic Geometry
- 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
- gardens
- Mughal gardens
- 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
- 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
- Database of muqarnas examples
- islamic art
- Islamic Art History
- Islamic art
- Geometry and ornament
- Three-dimensional decoration
- Islamic images
- Gallery – Islamic images
- Symmetry and pattern in carpets
- Pattern in Islamic art
- Flickr – patterns
- Maqarnas patterns
- A tiling database
- islamic resources
- Islamic resources
- journals
- Al Serat Journal of Islamic Studies
- maritime
- The history and construction of the dhow
- Marion Kaplan – Arab dhows
- Construction of a traditional craft in the Oman
- Website of Messrs Haji P.I. Ahamed Koya, builders of traditional wooden craft
- panoramas
- Panoramas in Egypt and Syria
- panoramas – 360°
- The Great Mosque at Cordoba
- The Bayezid Mosque at Istanbul
- personal sites
- Adam Williamson
- Alexey Seergeev – a large body of images of architecture and flora in Qatar
- Aerosol Arabic
- Ahmed Moustafa – calligrapher
- Calligraphy Qalam
- Hassan Massoudy
- Ian Whiteman
- Ibrahim abu Touq – calligrapher
- Ishq al Falaa – photographic site of Khalid bin Hamad bin Ahmad al Thani
- Islamic and geometric art
- Islamic woodwork
- Jila Peacock
- Mehdi Saeedi
- Nja Mahdaoui
- Sakkal design
- Thomas Weil – [German]
- Wissam Shawkat
- Zarah Hussain
- photographic sources
- Al Ashiddah
- Architectural Association Photo Library
- Doors of Doha
- Gertrude Bell photographic collection
- Images from Lebanon and the Levant
- Photographs from Cairo
- Qatar gallery – [Arabic]
- Qatar, my country
- 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
- stock images for Islamic geometry and related illustration
- Fotosearch
- additional resources
- Flickr is worth searching by place and subject
- Panoramio also can be searched by place and subject
Islamic design
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Search the Islamic design study pages
- Introduction
- Arabic / Islamic design
- Arabic / Islamic geometry 01
- Arabic / Islamic geometry 02
- Arabic / Islamic geometry 03
- Arabic / Islamic geometry 04
- Islamic architecture
- Islamic urban design 01
- Islamic urban design 02
- Islamic urban design 03
- Islamic urban design 04
- Islamic urban design 05
- Arabic / Islamic gardens
- Gulf architecture 01
- Gulf architecture 02
- Gulf architecture 03
- Gulf architecture 04
- Gulf architecture 05
- Gulf architecture 06
- Gulf architecture 07
- Gulf architecture 08
- Infrastructure development
- The building industry
- Environmental control
- Perception
- The household on its lot
- A new approach – conceptual
- A new approach – principles
- A new approach – details
- Al Salata al jadida
- Public housing
- Expatriate housing study
- Apartment housing
- Pressures for change
- The State’s administration
- Society 01
- Society 02
- Society 03
- Society 04
- Society 05
- Society 06
- History of the peninsula
- Geography
- Planning 01
- Planning 02
- Population
- Traditional boats
- Boat types
- Old Qatar 01
- Old Qatar 02
- Security
- Protection
- Design brief
- Design elements
- Building regulations
- Glossary
- Glossary addendum
- References
- References addendum
- Links to other sites