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| | Islamic History and Civilisation, Islam in the West today |
 | | This excellent multimedia introduction to the first millennium of Islamic history, developed by the Department of History, University of Calgary outlines Muslim beliefs and practices, as well as the history of the Islamic world from the 7th to the 17th centuries, including the expansion of the Islamic empires of Asia, Africa, and Europe. | | | Historical re-enactments and a remarkable exposition of Islamic art, artifacts and architecture are combined with interviews with scholars to recount the rise of early Islamic civilization. | | | One of history's greatest crimes is the almost complete omission of the debt the West owes to Islam and the Muslims. |
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http://www.islamfortoday.com/history.htm
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| | Islamic Art - Early Islamic Period: History |
| | This was also a critical period for the evolution of Islamic art, one in which a distinctive style and new techniques were introduced and disseminated throughout the empire. | | | The Umayyads shifted the focal point of political power from Arabia to Syria and launched a new wave of invasions. | | | The Islamic empire now extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indus River, with Damascus as its capital, Arabic its official language, and Islam its principal religion. |
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http://www.lacma.org/islamic_art/eip.htm
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| | Open Directory - Arts: Art History: Periods and Movements |
| | Modern Art Periods - Short description of the art movements of the 19th and 20th century. | | | Art Bank - Data-bank on ancient art from the 10th to the 18th century. | | | Vision - Vision of the Art of the 19th and 20th Century. |
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http://dmoz.org/Arts/Art_History/Movements
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| | Periods and Movements Art History Arts |
| | Modern Art Periods - Short description of the art movements of the 19th and 20th century. | | | Art Bank - Data-bank on ancient art from the 10th to the 18th century. | | | Art at the End of the 20th Century - Article by Max Podstolski. |
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http://www.iaswww.com/ODP/Arts/Art_History/Periods_and_Movements
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| | ART HISTORY RESOURCES: Part 7 Art of the Middle Ages |
| | Breviary of Martin of Aragon, 15th Century (BNF, ROTH 2529) | | | Anglo-Saxons, part of the Prehistory page in the Ancient History section of the BBC's History site, including links to | | | The Islamic Collection, from the 7th to the 19th centuries (in the David Collection, Copenhagen) |
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http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHmedieval.html
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| | The Bard Graduate Center: Faculty |
| | Professor of Art History, former Head of Department and Dean of Arts, The Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K. Academic committees include Council of National Academic Awards; Higher Education Funding Council; Chairman, Design History Publications Committee, Association of Art Historians; editorial board member of Art History. | | | Exhibitions include Islamic Carpets in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art and touring (forthcoming); Reinstallation of the Islamic and Asian Permanent Galleries, Brooklyn Museum of Art (forthcoming), Adventures of Hamza (coordinating co-curator). | | | Taught hybrid history studio courses in old master materials and techniques as well as more traditional art history classes. |
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http://www.bgc.bard.edu/academic/faculty.shtml
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| | SOCIAL STUDIES LINKS |
| | Timeline of Art History --from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York--a valuable resource complete through 1600 but added to daily. | | | American Rhetoric--Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century | | | Best of History Web Sites --Links for all periods and topics in U.S. history and if you want the whole gamut of the world, try Best History Sites. |
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http://home.gwi.net/brhs/socst.html
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| | Islamic Art History Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
| | Islamic art throughout history has been mainly abstract and decorative, portraying geometric, floral, Arabesque, and calligraphic designs. | | | Islamic art is the art of Islamic people, cultures, and countries. | | | Islamic art is centered usually around Allah, since Allah cannot be expressed into imagery, ["All you believe him to be, he is not"-Islamic Saying] geometrical patterns are used.similair to the Arabesque style, which also involves repeating geometrical patterns but are used to express ideals of order and nature. |
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http://www.dirtyart.com/encyclopedia/Islamic_art_history
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| | BRIEF HISTORY OF ISLAMIC ART |
| | Islamic artists are not trying to reveal their own personality or to create art which tells a story of its own. | | | That is, this style of art called Islamic, was produced in many different geographic regions whose diverse cultures were unified through the religion of Islam. | | | This Islamic culture linked for the first time in history, such varied and distant peoples as Spaniards, Africans, Persians, Turks, Egyptians and Indians. |
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http://www.youngartists.com/islamic.htm
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| | NES 257 |
| | A survey of Islamic history from the lifetime of the Prophet to the Mongol conquest of Baghdad. | | | Primary sources for the study of early Islamic History. | | | Islamic art by the contemporary artist Ali al-Bedah--quite beautiful. |
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http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/Courses/nes257/nes.html
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| | Category:Jewish Islam topics - Art History Online Reference and Guide |
| | See related articles Judaism, Islam, Islam and Judaism and Timeline of Jewish history. | | | Category:Jewish Islam topics - Your Art History Reference Guide! | | | Category:Jewish Islam topics - Art History Online Reference and Guide |
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http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Category:Jewish_Islam_topics
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| | Category:Jewish Islam topics - Art History Online Reference and Guide |
| | See related articles Judaism, Islam, Islam and Judaism and Timeline of Jewish history. | | | Category:Jewish Islam topics - Your Art History Reference Guide! | | | Category:Jewish Islam topics - Art History Online Reference and Guide |
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http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Category:Jewish_Islam_topics
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| | Islamic Arts and Architecture Organization |
| | "Islam Empire of Faith" Video/DVD, Book, and Web site present as broad a portrait of Islamic art and culture as possible, in order to show the great diversity as well as the fundamental unity of Islamic civilization in its long and varied history. | | | Islamic Arts and Architecture (IAAO) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing information on arts and architecture. | | | With a strong commitment to research and service, IAAO strives to offer a Web presentation of the highest quality and to promote the awareness of Islamic arts as a humanistic study, recognizing the inter-relationship between the arts and other academic disciplines... |
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http://www.islamicart.com
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| | Best of History Web Sites: Early Modern Europe |
| | This interactive timeline is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. | | | The Enlightenment is commonly dated to the middle of the eighteenth century and the activity of the philosophes, the French rationalist philosophers who fully articulated the values and consequences of Enlightenment thought. | | | The site uses video drama and virtual tours to provide an insight into Tudor life in general, and how court and country could come to be linked in the web of intrigue and politics of the latter days of Elizabeth I. Kings and Queens Through Time |
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http://www.besthistorysites.net/EarlyModernEurope.shtml
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| | Islamic History and Civilisation, Islam in the West today |
| | This excellent multimedia introduction to the first millennium of Islamic history, developed by the Department of History, University of Calgary outlines Muslim beliefs and practices, as well as the history of the Islamic world from the 7th to the 17th centuries, including the expansion of the Islamic empires of Asia, Africa, and Europe. | | | Historical re-enactments and a remarkable exposition of Islamic art, artifacts and architecture are combined with interviews with scholars to recount the rise of early Islamic civilization. | | | One of history's greatest crimes is the almost complete omission of the debt the West owes to Islam and the Muslims. |
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http://www.islamfortoday.com/history.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Islamic Art and Architecture (World of Art S.): Books |
| | Supported by a glossary of Islamic terms, a timeline and maps which untangle the complex history of Islamic dynasties and their artistic achievements, the book traces the architecture, calligraphy, book illumination, painting, ceramics, textiles, metalwork and other art forms of this prolific civilization, whose works survive in abundance. | | | Covering a thousand years of history and an area stretching from the Atlantic to the borders of India and China, this text is a guide to the arts of Islam. | | | Buy Islamic Art and Architecture (World of Art S.) with Islamic Art and Architecture: From Isfahan to the... |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0500203059
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| | Islamic History and Civilisation, Islam in the West today |
| | This excellent multimedia introduction to the first millennium of Islamic history, developed by the Department of History, University of Calgary outlines Muslim beliefs and practices, as well as the history of the Islamic world from the 7th to the 17th centuries, including the expansion of the Islamic empires of Asia, Africa, and Europe. | | | Historical re-enactments and a remarkable exposition of Islamic art, artifacts and architecture are combined with interviews with scholars to recount the rise of early Islamic civilization. | | | One of history's greatest crimes is the almost complete omission of the debt the West owes to Islam and the Muslims. |
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http://www.islamfortoday.com/history.htm
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| | Islamic History and Civilisation, Islam in the West today |
| | This excellent multimedia introduction to the first millennium of Islamic history, developed by the Department of History, University of Calgary outlines Muslim beliefs and practices, as well as the history of the Islamic world from the 7th to the 17th centuries, including the expansion of the Islamic empires of Asia, Africa, and Europe. | | | Historical re-enactments and a remarkable exposition of Islamic art, artifacts and architecture are combined with interviews with scholars to recount the rise of early Islamic civilization. | | | One of history's greatest crimes is the almost complete omission of the debt the West owes to Islam and the Muslims. |
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http://www.islamfortoday.com/history.htm
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| | ART HISTORY RESOURCES: Part 7 Art of the Middle Ages |
| | Breviary of Martin of Aragon, 15th Century (BNF, ROTH 2529) | | | Anglo-Saxons, part of the Prehistory page in the Ancient History section of the BBC's History site, including links to | | | The Islamic Collection, from the 7th to the 19th centuries (in the David Collection, Copenhagen) |
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http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHmedieval.html
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| | ART HISTORY RESOURCES: Part 7 Art of the Middle Ages |
| | Breviary of Martin of Aragon, 15th Century (BNF, ROTH 2529) | | | Anglo-Saxons, part of the Prehistory page in the Ancient History section of the BBC's History site, including links to | | | The Islamic Collection, from the 7th to the 19th centuries (in the David Collection, Copenhagen) |
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http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHmedieval.html
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| | ART HISTORY RESOURCES: Part 7 Art of the Middle Ages |
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http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHmedieval.html
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| | ART HISTORY RESOURCES: Part 7 Art of the Middle Ages |
| | Breviary of Martin of Aragon, 15th Century (BNF, ROTH 2529) | | | The Catalan Atlas, 14th Century (BNF, ESP 30) | | | The Islamic Collection, from the 7th to the 19th centuries (in the David Collection, Copenhagen) |
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http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHmedieval.html
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| | Breviary of Martin of Aragon, 15th Century (BNF, ROTH 2529) | | | The Islamic Collection, from the 7th to the 19th centuries (in the David Collection, Copenhagen) | | | Islamic Art in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHmedieval.html
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| | Category:Jewish Islam topics - Art History Online Reference and Guide |
| | See related articles Judaism, Islam, Islam and Judaism and Timeline of Jewish history. | | | Category:Jewish Islam topics - Your Art History Reference Guide! | | | Category:Jewish Islam topics - Art History Online Reference and Guide |
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http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Category:Jewish_Islam_topics
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| | Medieval Astronomy to the Scientific Revolution |
| | Arabic Numerals and Arabic Science in Spain, part of a website about Islam and Islamic History by Arabian American Oil Co. | | | Museum of the History of Science @ Oxford, England; the first two exhibits seem to be history of art as much as history of science: | | | The Ibis Eyewitness to History website has some more pages about other Medieval episodes. |
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http://members.aol.com/chopstcks/gca7sky/history/med.htm
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| | Medieval Astronomy to the Scientific Revolution |
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http://members.aol.com/chopstcks/gca7sky/history/med.htm
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| | Field flask [Turkey] (1984.100) Object Page Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| | Jerome A. Straka, Margaret Mushekian, and Edward Ablat Gifts, and Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, 1984 (1984.100) | | | Flasks of this type are related to so-called pilgrim flasks, the form of which can be traced to pre-Islamic times. | | | See more objects from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of |
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http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/ho/09/waa/hod_1984.100.htm
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art |
| | Explore the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan's collection. | | | Discover a variety of resources designed to complement works of art in the Museum's permanent collection and special exhibitions. |
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http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/index.asp
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