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ARTstor is a database of images from museums, artists, libraries, colleges and universities, scholars, private collections, and photo archives available for teaching, education, and scholarship, with all images cleared for educational use.
Abdul Hamid II Collection, Library of Congress
This monumental collection portrays the Ottoman Empire during the reign of one of its last sultans, Abdul-Hamid II. The 1,819 photographs in 51 large-format albums date from about 1880 to 1893.
Islamic Heritage Project, Harvard University
A digital collection of Islamic manuscripts, published texts, and maps from across Harvard's libraries and museums.
Harvard Art Mseums
Browse the collections for Islamic art, Persian art, manuscripts, and more.
Drawings of Islamic Monuments, Archnet
This collection contains two series of CAD drawings documenting approximately 200 monuments of Islamic architecture. Showcased here in JPG format, these drawings are associated to their respective monuments and presented here as a complete collection; another unique and important resource on Archnet.
Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met's collection of Islamic art ranges in date from the seventh to the twenty-first century. Its more than 15,000 objects reflect the great diversity and range of the cultural traditions of Islam, with works from as far westward as Spain and Morocco and as far eastward as Central Asia and Indonesia.
Arts of the Islamic World, National Museum of Asian Art
The phrases “arts of the Islamic World” and “Islamic art” refer to a variety of artistic traditions that have flourished in a vast geographic region—from southern Spain and North Africa to the islands of Southeast Asia since the advent of Islam in the late seventh century. While different cities and regions developed their own distinct secular and religious visual language, they also share certain formal and aesthetic concerns. The Freer and Sackler together hold one of the country’s finest collections of the arts of the Islamic world, with particular strengths in illustrated manuscripts and ceramics among the more than 2,200 objects.
Middle East Photograph Archive, University of Chicago Library
The Middle East Photograph Archive consists of over 400 photographic prints dating primarily to the second half of the nineteenth century.
Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain, University of Wisconsin, Madison
This collection contains over four thousand color slides and black and white photographs of medieval Spain taken by the late Eugene Casselman (1912-1996) during his thirty years of travel throughout the Iberian peninsula. The images span over one thousand years of architectural history, from the seventh to the seventeenth century.
Chester Beatty, Dublin
Browse the Islamic, persian and Arabic collections
Cresswell Archive, Ashmolean Museum
Discover the unique collection of photographic negatives of Professor K. A. C. Creswell, a founding father of medieval Islamic architectural history.
Islamic Art, Museum with No Frontiers
Virtual exhibitions of Islamic art in the Mediterranean. MWNF is a collaborative programme involving public and private partners from all over the world..
Archnet (Art & Architecture of the Muslim World)
An open access digital library of the art, architecture, urban design and built environment of the Muslim world. Resources include donated photo collections, international journals, monographs and architects' archives that are linked to sites, people, publications and other related materials.
Islamic Art Collection, Louvre, Paris
Sesrch the holdings of Département des Arts de l'Islam
Art and Architecture of the Islamic World: Archives & Image Collections, MIT Libraries
"On this page you will find links to digitized collections of images or archival materials accessible online. The contents are ordered geographically by country in alphabetical order. Collections with broader scopes are listed first."