Category Archives: Islamic art

Iran 14-19 century, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Iran Islamic Art in 14-19 century. The Iranian Safavids, a dynasty stretching from 1501 to 1786, is distinguished from the Mughal and Ottoman Empires, and earlier Persian rulers. Ceramic arts are marked by the strong influence of Chinese porcelain, often executed in blue and white. Architecture flourished, attaining a high…

Iran 14-19 century, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Egypt & Syria, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Islamic Art in Egypt & Syria 12-15 century. After the Fatimid dynasty, which reigned in Egypt from 909 and 1171 introduced crafts and knowledge from politically troubled Baghdad to Cairo. By the year 1070, the Seljuks emerged as the dominant political force in the Muslim world after they liberated Baghdad…

Egypt & Syria, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Iran & Central Aisa 12-14 century, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

12th–14th centuries is the first Islamic golden age, mostly from Syria and Iraq. Influence from Byzantine visual vocabulary (blue and gold coloring, angelic and victorious motifs, symbology of drapery) combined with Mongoloid facial types in 12th-century book frontispieces. During their time, the center of culture, politics and art production shifted…

Iran & Central Aisa 12-14 century, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Early Islamic art 7-12 century, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

The period of a rapid expansion of the Islamic era forms a reasonably accurate beginning for the label of Islamic art. Early geographical boundaries of the Islamic culture were in present-day Syria. It is quite difficult to distinguish the earliest Islamic objects from their predecessors in Persian or Sassanid and…

Early Islamic art 7-12 century, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Qatar Science, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Islamic scientific achievements encompassed a wide range of subject areas, especially astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. Other subjects of scientific inquiry included alchemy and chemistry, botany, geography and cartography, ophthalmology, pharmacology, physics, and zoology. Astronomy and cosmology Astronomy was a major discipline within Islamic science. Effort was devoted both towards understanding…

Qatar Science, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Qatar pattern, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Islamic decoration, which tends to avoid using figurative images, makes frequent use of geometric patterns which have developed over the centuries. Islamic interlace patterns developed from the rich interlacing patterns of the Byzantine Empire and from Coptic art. The MIA textile collection has some of the finest examples of carpets,…

Qatar pattern, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Qatar Calligraphy, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

The collection has over 800 manuscripts from Qur’ans from the 7th century to Ottoman works of the 19th century. As well as the Qu’rans, you will see manuscripts on science, literature and religious subjects. The famous Abbasid Blue Qur’an is one the finest and rarest manuscripts in the Islamic world.…

Qatar Calligraphy, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

The Arts of the Book and Calligraphy Collection, Sakıp Sabancı Museum

Sakıp Sabancı’s collection of calligraphic works by famous calligraphers, Korans and illuminated manuscripts began with the purchase of a levha (calligraphic panel) by Sultan Mahmud II (r. 1808-39). During the 1980s, the Sakıp Sabancı collection expanded with the purchase of private collections, and from 1989 onwards, the collection was exhibited…

The Arts of the Book and Calligraphy Collection, Sakıp Sabancı Museum

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