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High-resolution images of the arts of the Islamicate world, gathered under a particular theme or a relevant context.
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Play the musicBibliographic entries on the aspects of Islamicate intellectuality that bear on the study of Islamic art history, with the catalogues of manuscript libraries, museums and collections.
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Scene from the tale of King Turktāzī and Turktāz, queen of the faeries, as told by the Princess of India to Bahrām Gūr in the Haft Paykar, from Šāh Ṭahmāsp Ṣafavī’s Ḫamsa of Niẓāmī. Signed by Muḥammad Zamān, dated 1086 H./1675–76. London, British Library, Or. 2265, fol. 221v. © British Library Board.
Essie Sakhai; ed. Jonathan Wadsworth
Persian Rugs and Carpets: Masterpieces of Woven Art
ACC Art Books, forthcoming 2027
Learn MoreSilvia Armando (ed.)
Stories and Histories of Islamic Art in Italy
University of Michigan Press for the American Academy in Rome, forthcoming 2027
Learn MoreMarianna Shreve Simpson
Manuscript Matters and the Persian Arts of the Book in Early Modern Times
Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming November 2026
Learn MoreConstance Jame
Curating Islamic Art in European Museums: Postcolonial Perspectives and Museological Transformations
Routledge, 2026
Learn MoreAlya Karame
The Forgotten Qur’ans of the Eastern Islamic World: Manuscripts of the Ghaznavid and Ghurid Dynasties, 11th–12th Centuries CE
Edinburgh University Press, 2026
Learn MoreHala Auji and Radha Dalal (eds)
Islamic Art History and the Global Turn: Theory, Method, Practice
Yale University Press, 2026
Learn MoreThom Richardson and Paula Turner (eds)
The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Arms and Armour from Asia, Africa and the Ottoman World
Philip Wilson Publishers, 2026
Learn MoreFederica Gigante
Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court
Edinburgh University Press, 2025
Learn MoreMarcus Milwright (ed.)
Encounters: Medieval Islamic History in 50 Objects
Routledge, 2025
Learn MoreBilha Moor
Illustrated Ottoman Cosmographies, c. 1550–1700: The World through Muslim Eyes
Edinburgh University Press, 2025
Learn MoreMounia Chekhab-Abudaya (ed.)
Gazing at Mecca and Medina: Premodern Representations of the Ḥaramayn
Brill, 2025
Learn MoreRichard P. McClary (ed.)
Stucco in the Islamic World: Studies of Architectural Ornament from Spain to India
Edinburgh University Press, 2025
Learn MoreLisa Golombek and Robert B. Mason
Princes, Dervishes and Dragons: The Tile Arcade from Safavid Isfahan (c. 1685–95)
Edinburgh University Press, 2025
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Exhibition
7 November 2026 – 9 May 2027
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Sixteen centuries of art and design in the Byzantine and Ottoman capital, AD 330–1922, told through more than 200 objects: silks and dress, tiles and mosaics, metalwork, manuscripts and paintings.
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National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
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26 September 2026 – 18 January 2027
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
Twenty-six works from the Louvre’s Islamic collection, shown in the United States for the first time, among them the Lion of Monzón and a large Ottoman dish of about 1480. The exhibition follows each object’s path to the Louvre.
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Exhibition
3 September – 28 November 2026
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
About 140 objects spanning thirteen centuries, from Timurid architectural fragments and manuscripts to ceramics, jewellery, suzanis and ikat robes, lent by thirteen institutions in Uzbekistan and by collections in Qatar.
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Musée du Louvre, Paris
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24 June – 31 December 2026
Musée du Louvre, Paris
While the Department of Islamic Art is closed for refurbishment, some of its most important pieces are shown among the galleries of the Department of Decorative Arts.
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Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore
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19 June 2026 – 24 January 2027
Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore
About one hundred works from the Louvre, shown with thirty from the museum’s own collection, trace the exchanges between Mughal India, Safavid Iran, the Ottoman world and Southeast Asia in the 16th to 18th centuries.
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Exhibition
12 June 2026 – 28 February 2027
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Met’s first exhibition on Orientalism brings together about 180 objects from twelve departments, from Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign of 1798 to the Ottoman painter Osman Hamdi Bey.
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Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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19 November 2026
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
A watch party and hands-on workshop for Islamic Art Week, led by a maker trained at the Jameel House of Traditional Arts in Cairo and The King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts.
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Department of History of Art, University of York
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25 November 2026, 17:00–19:00
Department of History of Art, University of York
A seminar on new approaches to Persian calligraphy, held in the Berrick Saul Building on the university’s Campus West.
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Exhibition
5 February – 9 May 2027
Frist Art Museum, Nashville
The V&A’s touring exhibition on the golden age of the Mughal court under Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan, when elements from South Asia, Iran, China and Europe met in its art.
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Getty, LACMA and UCLA, Los Angeles
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4–6 March 2027
Getty, LACMA and UCLA, Los Angeles
The Historians of Islamic Art Association’s biennial symposium on technology in Islamic art, from paper, lustre and windtowers to the scientific and digital tools used to study it today.
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