Islamic Art & Architecture Final

Complex of Qalaun

Cairo 1283-85 (Mamluks)

Complex of Sultan Hasan

Cairo begun 1356 (Mamluks)

Quran of Baybars al Jashnagir

Cairo 1304-6 (London, British Library.
Calligrapher: Ibn al-Wahid, student of Yaqut al Mustasimi (1221-98).
Illuminators: Sandal, Ibn Mubadir and assistants (Mamluks)

Page from 30-volume manuscript of the Quran, Baghdad

1306-13. Made for the tomb of
Uljaytu
Calligraphy attributed to Ahmad b. al Suhrawardi, student of Yaqut al Mustasimi (1221-
98) (Ilkhanids)

Jami’ al-tawarikh, “Compendium of Chronicles,”

by 1306-07
Author: Rashid al-Din (1247-1318)
Birth of Prophet Muhammad
Mahmud of Ghazna crossing the Ganges (Ilkhanids)

Great Mongol Shahnama, “Book of Kings,”

ca. 1318-35, Ilkhanid Iran, Tabriz
Author: Firdawsi, d. 1020 (Shahnama composed in 1010)
Possible patron: Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad, son of Rashid al-Din
King Zav Enthroned
Alexander and the talking tree
Alexander’s Funeral (Ilkhanids)

Zafarnama of Sharaf al Din Yazdi

Shiraz, 1436
Patron: Ibrahim Sultan, (son of Shahrukh, governor of Shiraz, 1414-1435)
“Timur Celebrates his conquest of Delhi”
“Battle Between Timur and Toqtamish Khan” (Timurids)

Kalila wa Dimna

Herat 1429
Patron: Baysunghur (son of Shahrukh, governor of Herat, 1397-1433)
“Frontispiece: Baysunghur Seated in a Garden”
“The Fox and the Drum”
“The Owl and the Crows”
(Timurids)

Shahnama

Herat 1430
Patron: Baysunghur (son of Shahrukh, governor of Herat, 1397-1433)
“Frontispiece: Baysunghhur Hunting”
“Mourning for Rustam”
(Timurids)

Zafarnama of Yazdi

Herat, ca. 1480
Patron: Sultan Husayn Bayqara
“Construction of the Bibi Khanum Mosque of Samarkand”
“Timur Granting an Audience in Balkh on the Occasion of his Accession to Power in 1370”
(Timurids)

Shahnama for Shah Tahmasp

Tabriz, 1525-35
“The Court of Gayumars”
“The Nightmare of Zahhak”
(Safavids)

Masjid-i Shah (Mosque of the Shah, or Royal Mosque)

Isfahan, 1611-30
Patron: Shah Abbas.
(Safavids)

Suleymaniye Mosque Complex

Istanbul, 1551-57. Architect: Sinan, built for Suleyman
Architect Sinan (chief architect 1538-88)
chief architect under sultans Suleyman I, Selim II, ad Murad III
head of Royal Architects’ Guild
(Ottomans)

Suleymannama

Istanbul, 1558. Author: shahnama writer Arifi
“Accession of Suleyman”
“The Gathering of devshirme children”
“Siege of Belgrade”
(Ottomans