Islam to 1400 Flashcards
Dome of the Rock (exterior view)
Type: monument/shrine
Creator/Culture: Islamic
Date/Period: 691/Umayyad
Style Period: Umayyad
Site Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Dome of the Rock (interior view of rocks, arcades, and dome)
Type: monument/shrine
Materials/Techniques: reused classical marble columns and gilded Corinthian capitals, black and white marble revetment
Creator/Culture: Islamic
Date/Period: 691/Umayyad
Style Period: Umayyad
Site Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Dome of the Rock (interior, detail of mosaic with inscription)
Type: monument/shrine
Materials/Techniques: glass, gold, and mother-of-pearl tesserae
Patron/Culture: Umayyad caliph ‘Abd al-Mālik ibn Marwān/Islamic
Date/Period: 691/Umayyad
Style Period: Umayyad
Site Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Umayyad Mosque (courtyard)
Type: mosque
Patron/Culture: Umayyad caliph al-Walīd ibn ‘Abd al-Mālik (completed by Sulaymān ibn ‘Abd al-Mālik)/Islamic
Date/Period: 707-714/15/Umayyad
Style Period: Umayyad
Site Location: Damascus, Syria
Umayyad Mosque (detail of mosaic on West wall)
Type: mosaic
Materials/Techniques: predominantly glass paste tesserae
Patron/Culture: Umayyad caliph al-Walīd ibn ‘Abd al-Mālik (completed by Sulaymān ibn ‘Abd al-Mālik)/Islamic
Date/Period: 707-714/15/Umayyad
Style Period: Umayyad
Site Location: Damascus, Syria
Umayyad Mosque (detail of mosaic along Western portico depicting river, trees, and hippodrome)
Type: mosaic
Materials/Techniques: predominantly glass paste tesserae
Patron/Culture: Umayyad caliph al-Walīd ibn ‘Abd al-Mālik (completed by Sulaymān ibn ‘Abd al-Mālik)/Islamic
Date/Period: 707-714/15/Umayyad
Style Period: Umayyad
Site Location: Damascus, Syria
Stucco decoration (interior decoration from walls of room one)
Type: panels (surface components)
Materials/Techniques: molded stucco
Creator/Culture: Islamic
Date/Period: 9th century/Abassid
Style Period: Abassid, third Samarra or “beveled” style
Site Location: house one in Samarra, modern Iraq
Ceramic bowl
Type: vessel
Materials/Techniques: Earthenware, white slip with black slip decoration under transparent glaze
Dimensions: H. 7 in.; Diam. 18 in.
Creator/Culture: Islamic
Date/Period: 10th century/Samanid
Style Period: Samanid
Place of Origin: Nishapur, modern Iran
Inscription: “Planning before work protects you from regret; prosperity and peace”
Repository: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
Shroud of St. Josse
Type: textile
Materials/Techniques: colored and figured silk samite (weft-faced compound twill, with the warp hidden on both sides of the fabric) saddle cloth
Dimensions: two fragments, 52 x 94 cm and 24 x 62 cm
Patron/Culture: likely for the Samanid emir Bukhtegin/Islamic
Date/Period: before 961/Samanid
Style Period: Samanid
Place of Origin: Iran or Central Asia
Inscription: Kufic
Repository: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Bowl (depicting Bahram Gur Hunting on camelback with Azada, and other mounted figures)
Type: vessel
Materials/Techniques: Stonepaste; polychrome in-glaze and overglaze painted on an opaque monochrome glaze (mina’i)
Dimensions: 3 13/16 x 8 1/2 in.
Culture: Islamic
Date/Period: 12th-13th century/Seljuq
Style: mina’i
Place of Origin: probably Kashan, Iran
Repository: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Hanging Mosque Lamp
Type: mosque lamp, lighting device
Materials/Techniques: Glass; free blown, with blue enamel calligraphic frieze on a gilt background, and a gilded inscription on a background of blue enamel.
Dimensions: H. 13 in.
Patron/Culture: Sayf al-Din Tuquztimur/Islamic
Date/Period: 1340
Style Period: Mamluk
Place of Origin: Egypt
Inscription: include the Light verse (Qur’an 24:35), “God is the light of the heavens and the earth; His light may be compared to a niche that enshrines a lamp, the lamp within a crystal of a star-like brilliance…” and the name of the patron, Sayf al-Din Tuquztimur, as well as his emblems, a cup and an eagle.
Repository: British Museum, London, England
All-epigraphic Dinar of ‘Abd al-Mālik
Type: coin, Dinar
Materials/Techniques: Gold, struck by hand
Culture: Islamic
Date/Period: 696/7/Umayyad
Style Period: Umayyad
Place of Origin: unknown
Inscription: Obverse inscription: There is no god except God, alone, He has no partner. Obverse margin: Muḥammad is the Messenger of God, He sent him with guidance and the religion of truth so that he may proclaim it over all religions (Qur’ān 9:33, 48:28 or 61:9). Reverse inscription: from Qur’ān 112: God, the One, God, the Eternal, He does not beget nor is He begotten. Reverse margin: In the name of God, this dinar was struck in the year 77.
Repository: unknown/many
Dish with female rebab player
Type: dish
Materials/Techniques: Earthenware with monochrome luster on opaque glaze
Dimensions: Diam. 40 cm
Culture: Islamic
Date/Period: 11th century/Fatimid
Style Period: Fatimid
Place of Origin: Egypt
Repository: The Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo, Egypt
Polychrome luster bowl
Type: bowl
Materials/Techniques: Earthenware, overglaze painted with polychrome luster
Dimensions: H. 3.8 cm; Diam. 31.7 cm
Culture: Islamic
Date/Period: 9th century/Abbasid
Style Period: Abbasid
Place of Origin: Iraq
Repository: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
