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Palace and Mosque resources

Selected bibliography & links

 
Suggestions for Further Reading and Resources
With grateful thanks to Rhyme & Reason Booksellers, 681 Ecclesall Road, Sheffield 0114 266 1950

Al-Gailani, N. & Smith, C. The Islamic Year: Surahs, Stories, Celebrations (Gloucestershire: Hawthorn Press, 2002)

Attard, E. & Holland, R. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (London: Mantra Lingua, 2005)

Barber, N. Islamic Art & Culture (East Sussex, Raintree, 2005)

Bloom, J. & Blair, S. Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power (Yale: Yale University Press, 2002)

Bourgoin, J. Islamic Patterns (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977)

Canby, S. Islamic Art in Detail (London: British Museum Press, 2005)

Ganeri, A. Sacred Texts: The Quran (London: Evans Brothers Limited, 2003)

Ganeri, A. Storyteller: Islamic Stories (London: Evans Brothers Limited, 2001)

Irwin, R. Islamic Art in Context: Art, Architecture and the Literary World (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997)

Jungman, A. & Fowles, S. The Most Magnificent Mosque (London: Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, 2004)

Robert, N. & Mayo, D. Journey through Islamic Art (London: Mantra Lingua, 2005)

Stanley, T. Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Middle East (London: V&A Publications, 2004)

Turpin, L. The Sultans Snakes (Swindon: Childs Play (International) Limited, 1990)

Wilkinson, P. Islam: Eyewitness Guide (London: Dorling Kindersley, 2002)

Wilson, E. Islamic Designs (London: British Museum Press, 2005)
 
Websites
Palace and Mosque Resources, National Gallery of Art, Washington http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2004/islamic/

The Arts of the Islamic World Teacher Pack Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC http://www.asia.si.edu/education/
 
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