Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, usually involving imaginative or technical skill. 

Calligraphy

Painting

Rugs and carpets

Ceramics

10th-century dish from East Persia

Iznik glazed pottery ca. 1575

Tiling

Tiled exterior of the Friday Mosque of Herat, Afghanistan

Glass

"The Luck of Edenhall", a 13th-century Syrian beaker, in England since the Middle Ages.

 

Mamluk mosque lamp

Metalwork

Ganja khanate gold jewelery (Azerbaijan State Museum of History)

Other applied arts

Mughal dagger with hilt injade, gold, rubies and emeralds. Blade of damascened steel inlaid with gold.

Precious stones

House and furniture

Ottoman marquetry and tile-top table, about 1560

Ivory

Ivory with traces of paint, 11th–12th century, Egypt

Silk

Ilkhanid piece in silk, cotton and gold, Iran or Iraq, early 14th century

Javanese court batik

History of Islamic art

Beginnings

Pre-dynastic

Palace facade from Mshatta in Jordan, now in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin, c. ?740

 

Umayyad

Mosaics from the riwaq (portico) of the Great Mosque of Damascus.

Abbasid

Luster-ware bowl from Susa, 9th century, today in the Louvre.

Medieval period (9th–15th centuries)

Spain and the Maghreb

Arabesques around one of the windows.

 

Arab Mashriq

Iran and Central Asia

Bibi-Khanym Mosque, Samarkand,Uzbekistan, built by Timur in 1399.

 

Ilkhanids

The Golden Horde and the Timurids

Syria, Iraq, Anatolia

Çifte Minareli Medrese in Erzurum

South Asia

Arabesque inlays at the MughalAgra Fort

The Three Empires

Ottomans

16th century İznik pottery.

Mughals

An illustrated manuscript of theMughal Emperor Shah Jahan attending the marriage procession of his eldest son Dara Shikoh. Mughal-Era fireworkswere utilized to brighten the night throughout the wedding ceremony.

Safavids and Qajars

Entrance to Sheykh Lotfollah mosque, Naqsh-e Jahan Square,Isfahan

Modern period

 

Bou Inania Madrasa,Fes, Morocco, zelligemosaic tiles