File: Medieval horse armour. jpg | Medieval horse armour on display at Museum of Islamic Art, Doha in Qatar.

African art, Islamic art, Indian art, Chinese art, Korean Art, and Japanese art each had significant influence on Western art, and, vice-versa.

He later returned to the world of the arts by designing the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, the Miho Museum in Japan, the Suzhou Museum in Suzhou, and the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar.

He also designed the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.

* Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic Art and Spirituality, Albany: SUNY Press, 1987, chapters 7 and 8.

As of 2008, the collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities ; Near Eastern Antiquities ; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities ; Islamic Art ; Sculpture ; Decorative Arts ; Paintings ; Prints and Drawings.

The € 98. 5m expansion of the Islamic Art galleries in 2012 received state funding of € 31 million, as well as € 17 million from the Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation founded by the eponymous Saudi prince.

* Mack, Rosamond E. Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600, University of California Press, 2001 ISBN 0-520-22131-1

The Grove Dictionary of Art will have none of this confusion, and says flatly: " Over the centuries the word has been applied to a wide variety of winding and twining vegetal decoration in art and meandering themes in music, but it properly applies only to Islamic art ", so contradicting the definition of 1888 still found in the Oxford English Dictionary: " A species of mural or surface decoration in colour or low relief, composed in flowing lines of branches, leaves, and scroll-work fancifully intertwined.

* Mack, Rosamond E. Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600, University of California Press, 2001 ISBN 0-520-22131-1

After the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Shiraz was re-established as the capital of Iranian Art and Culture.

In 1967 he created the master plan for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and since then has designed all of the new wings and installation of many collections including the recently reopened American and Islamic Wings.

:: Islamic Art Gallery: The gallery displays a magnificent collection of Islamic art belonging to the sultan, Hassanal Bolkiah and is the main highlight.

), Image and Meaning in Islamic Art ( London, Altajir Trust, 2005 ), 42 – 60.

In Muqarnas X: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture.

The East Asian collections are among the best in Europe, with particular strengths in ceramics and metalwork, while the Islamic collection, alongside the British Museum, Musée du Louvre and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, is amongst the largest in the Western world.

The V & A is one of 17 museums across Europe and the Mediterranean participating in a project called Discover Islamic Art.

The Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art, opened in 2006, houses a representative display of 400 objects with the highlight being the Ardabil Carpet, the centrepiece of the gallery.

An Islamic Art College is located within the Complex.

Art historian Robert Hillenbrand ( 1999 ) likens the movement to the foundation of an " Islamic Rome ", because the meeting of Eastern influences from Iranian, Eurasian steppe, Chinese, and Indian sources created a new paradigm for Islamic art.

* Bloom, Sheila and Jonathan, eds., Rivers of Paradise: Water in Islamic Art and Culture, Yale University Press, 2009.

In The Architecture of Islamic Jerusalem.

* Islamic Architecture 691-present

Dictionary of Islamic Architecture.

* The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem Masterpieces of Islamic Architecture

The beauty of the town's cultural inheritance, which has some Islamic influence, has been recognised by UNESCO, which includes four churches in the World Heritage Site Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon, notably the town's ornate cathedral in the Mudéjar style.

* Modern Islamic Architecture, Biennale 1982, Venice, Italy.

* ARCHNET: Islamic Architecture Community: Extensive archive of scholarly articles, full publications and pictures

It is very common to mistake Persian Architecture for Islamic Architecture and thus advisable to read both articles.

Rashidun Caliphate ( 632-661 ) was the first state to use Islamic Architecture, sought the first use of Islamic Forts, Administration systems ( Dar al-Imara ) and the first foundation of Islamic cities ( Basra, Kufa and Fostat ).

Abbasid Caliphate ( 750-1513 ), Islamic Architecture peaked in the Abbasid era, cities such as Baghdad, Damascus, Aleppo were of the largest cities ever.

* Nomad Inception: Modern interpretation of Islamic Architecture

* Architecture of IRAN during Islamic times

The Nizams patronized Islamic art, Islamic Architecture, culture and literature, which became central to Hyderabadi Muslim identity.

In 1979, the Aga Khan established the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to promote the study of Islamic art, architecture, urbanism, landscape design, and conservation.

According to contemporary biographer, Mustafa Sâi Çelebi, Sinan was born in 1489 ( c. 1490 according to the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1491 according to the Dictionary of Islamic Architecture and sometime between 1494 and 1499, according to the Turkish professor and architect Reha Günay

Islamic Architecture: Form, function and meaning.

* Islamic Architecture in Mali

* Islamic Architecture in China with lots of photographs

Reconstructing a Jewel of Islamic Art ( London: Thames & Hudson 2008 ).

The Islamic World after 9 / 11 ( Thames and Hudson 2009 ), is a seven years quest within 16 countries: opposed by governments who hunt them mercilessly, the jihadists lose many battles, but are they not winning the war to control the mind of the people, with the " creeping islamisation " of all Muslim societies?