Dome of the Rock

Jerusalem

687-692

Dome of the Rock (interior)

Jerusalem

687-692

Great Mosque (aerial view)

Damascas, Seria

705-715

Plan of Umayyad palace

Mshatta, Jordan

ca. 740-750

limestone

Frieze, Umayyad palace

Mshatta, Jordan

ca. 740-750

limestone

Great Mosque (aerial view)

Kairouan, Tunisia

ca. 836-875

Malwiya (snail shell) minaret

Great Mosque

Samarra, Iraq

848-852

Mausoleum of the Samanids

Bukhara, Uzbekistan

early 10th century

Prayer hall

Great Mosque

Cordoba, Spain

8th to 10th centuries

Maqsura

Great Mosque

Cordoba, Spain

961-976

Textile fragment 

(Confronting lions and palm tree)

Zandana

near Bukhara, Uzbekistan

eith century

silk compound twill

*with Kufic text

Ewer in the form of a bird

by Sulayman

796

cast brass with silver and copper inlay

*detail of design on ewer compared with silk design

Koran page

al-Kahf (The Cave)

9th or early 10th century

ink, gold on vellum

Muquarnes dome,

Hall of the Two Sisters

Alhambra palace

Granada, Spain

1354-1391

Madrasa-mosque-mausoleum complex (plan)

of Sultan Hasan

Cairo, Egypt

begun 1356

Mirmar Sinan

Mosque of Selim 2

Edirne, Turkey

1568-1575

Mirmar Sinan

Mosque of Selim 2 (interior)

Edirne, Turkey

1568-1575

Great Mosque (aerial view)

Isfahan, Iran

11th to 17th centuries

Winter prayer hall of the Shahi (Imam) Mosque

Isfahan, Iran

1611-1638

Mihrab

from the Madrasa Imami

Isfahan, Iran

ca. 1354

glazed mosaic tile work

Bihzad, Seduction of Yusuf

folio 52 verso of the Buston of Sultan Husayn Mayqara

Heart, Afghanistan

1488

ink and color on paper

Maqsud of Kashan

Carpet from the funery mosque of Shaykh Safi al-Din

Ardabil, Iran

1540

Basin (Baptistere de Saint Louis)

by Muhammad Ibn 

Al-Zayn, Egypt

ca. 1300

brass, inlaid with gold and silver

Canteen

(with episodes from the life of Christ)

Syria

ca. 1240-1250

brass, inlaid with silver