Image Repositories

ArchNet: Photographs, drawings, publications, and other media for Islamic architecture, art, and urbanism past and present. Archnet is a partnership between the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) and the Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries (AKDC@MIT)

Manar al-Athar: High resolution, searchable image repository for teaching, research, and publication. Images of archaeological sites, buildings and art of Syro-Palestine/the Levant, Egypt and North Africa, as well as some bordering regions, such as Georgia and Armenia. Based at University of Oxford

Islamic Architecture: Plans, drawings, photogrammetry, 3D images of Islamic monuments in Jordan, Iran, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Sicily by Antonio Almagro of the Escuela de Estudios Árabes de Granada/Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain

Architecture of al-Andalus: Plans, drawings, photogrammetry, 3D images by Antonio Almagro of the Escuela de Estudios Árabes de Granada/Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain

Museum/Archival Collections:

This is a partial list, mainly reflecting Anglo-American collections with which I’m most familiar – suggestions for additions are welcome, especially for collections in Asia and the MENA region

Asia/MENA

• Iraq Museum, Baghdad
• Islamic Arts Museum (IAMM), Malaysia
• Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Cairo
• Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Doha

Europe/North America/UK

• Aga Khan Museum, Toronto
• Ashmolean Museum
• British Museum
• David Collection, Copenhagen
• Google Arts & Culture – Curator Table (Islamic)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Heilbrunn Timeline Essays
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin
• National Museums Scotland
• Freer/Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian)
• University of Edinburgh Library, Oriental Manuscripts Collection
• Victoria & Albert Museum

Caliphal Sites