Shangri La

A Center for Islamic Arts and Cultures

Visit other collections of Islamic Art: 

• Benaki Museum, Athens
• Art of the Islamic World, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
• Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin
• The David Collection, Copenhagen
• Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
• Tareq Rajab Museum, Hawelli, Kuwait
• L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem
• The Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
• The Islamic Middle East, British Museum, London
• Islamic Collection, The Khalili Collections, London
• Islamic Middle East Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• Islamic Art,The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
• Islamic Art, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
• Arts of the Islamic World, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
• Islamic Art Department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
• The Aga Khan Museum, Toronto
• Arts of the Islamic World, The Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Additional resources:

• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The Birth of Islam, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
• Glossary terms,
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Dictionary of Islamic Architecture, Arch Net
• Islamic dynasties,
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Gregorian - Hijri Dates Converter
• Introduction to Islamic art,
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• The Spirit of Islam: Experiencing Islam through Calligraphy, Museum of Anthropology,
  University of British Columbia
• The Nature of Islamic Art,
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Symmetry and Pattern: The Art of Oriental Carpets, Mathforum
• Figural Representation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Calligraphy in Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Maps: 

• Near East
• North Africa
• South Asia
• Middle East and Central Asia

Recommended reading: 

• James W. Allan, Islamic Ceramics, (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Oxford, 1991)
• Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair, Islamic Arts, (London: Phaidon Press Ltd, 1997)
• Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair, eds. The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
• Maryam D. Ekhtiar, Priscilla P. Soucek, Sheila R. Canby, and Navina Najat Haidar, eds. Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, distributed by Yale University Press, 2011)
• Robert Hillenbrand, Islamic Art and Architecture, (London and New York: Thames and Hudson, Ltd. 1999)
• Robert Irwin, Islamic Art in Context, (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1997)
• Jennifer Scarce, Domestic Culture in the Middle East, (Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 1996)