Links
Highly Recommended
- www.archnet.org - An unsurpassed resource for every aspect of Islamic architecture.
- www.tilingsearch.org - An extensive database that provides a comprehensive collection of geometric tiling patterns, and the means of locating them
Other Useful Sites
- www.al-bab.com - ‘An open door to the Arab world’
- www.artstor.org - A huge U.S. based digital library with donations from many major museums; holds a high-resolution selection of Wade-Archive images
- castera.net - Author of 'Arabesques: Decorative Art in Morocco'
- www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/washington/taprats/ - Computer-generated Islamic star-patterns; Craig Kaplan
- www.discoverislamicart.org - ‘The Museum With No Frontiers’; an extensive virtual museum with a Permanent Collection and regular Exhibitions
- www.islamic-art.org - The Islamic Art Network: excellent Egypt specific site
Relevant Articles on-line
- Abas, S.J. & Salman, A - Geometric and Group-theoretic Methods for Computer Graphic Studies of Islamic Symmetric Patterns
- Akkach, S - Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam [pdf]
- Aljamali, M.A. & Banissi, E. - Grid method Classification of Islamic Geometrical Patterns
- Allen, Terry - Aniconism and Figural Representation in Islamic Art
- Allen, Terry - Constructs of Symmetry in Islamic Art
- Allen, Terry - Islamic Art and the Argument from Academic Geometry
- Bonner, J: Islamic Geometric Patterns
- Caplan, C.S. & Salesin, D.H: Islamic Star Patters in Absolute Geometry
- Castera, Jean-Marc - Arabesques et entrelacs
- Cromwell, Peter: Hybrid 1-point and 2-point constructions for some Islamic geometric designs, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, Vol.4, Iss.1, 2010
- Cromwell, Peter: Islamic geometric designs from the Topkapı Scroll I: unusual arrangements of stars, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, Vol.4, Iss.2, 2010
- Cromwell, Peter: Islamic geometric designs from the Topkapı Scroll II: a modular design system, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, Vol.4, Iss. 3, 2010
- Cromwell, P: The Search for Quasi-Periodicity in Islamic 5-fold Ornament [pdf]
- Cromwell, Peter & Beltrami, Elizabeth: The Whirling Kites of Isfahan: Geometric Variations on a Theme, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol.33, No.3, 84-93
- Egan, Greg: Girih - Animated quasiperiodic tilings with ten-fold rotational symmetry.
- Lee, A.J. ‘Muqarnas’ IV, 1987 - Islamic Star Patterns
- Lu, Peter J. : Decagonal and Quasicrystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture
- Necefoglu, H: Turkish Crystallographic patterns [pdf]
- Mackovicky, E: Comment on ‘Diagonal & Quasi-crystalline tiling …’
- Sarhani,R: Modularity in Medieval Persian Mosaics
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