Atil, Esin
1981 Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. (Textiles and Rugs, pp. 223-248).

See also review by Lois Ibsen al-Faruqi in The Muslim World, vol. LXXIII, no. 3-4, July - October 1983, pp. 278-279.

Bier, Carol
1981 Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks (exhibition guide). Smithsonian Institution, Washington.

Ellis, Charles Grant
1988 Oriental Carpets in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.

(Egyptian and Syrian Carpets, pp. 117-131).

Grabar, Oleg, ed.
1984 Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Volume 2: The Art of the Mamluks. Yale University Press, New Haven and London.

Contents: Oleg Grabar, Reflections on Mamluk Art; Karl Stowasser, Manners and Customs at the Mamluk Court; André Raymond, Cairo's Area and Population in the Early Fifteenth Century; John Alden Williams, Urbanization and Monument Construction in Mamluk Cairo; Laila 'Ali Ibrahim, Residential Architecture in Mamluk Cairo; Donald P. Little, The Haram Documents as Sources for the Arts and Architecture of the Mamluk Period; David A. King, The Astronomy of the Mamluks: A Brief Overview; James W.Allan, Sha'ban, Barquq, and the Decline of the Mamluk Metalworking Industry; Marilyn Jenkins, Mamluk Underglaze Pottery: Foundations for Future Study; George T. Scanlon, Mamluk Pottery: More Evidence from Fustat; Louise W. Mackie, Toward an Understanding of Mamluk Silks: National and International Considerations; David James, Some Observations on the Calligrapher and Illuminators of the Koran of Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Jashnagir; Esin Atil, Mamluk Painting in the Late Fifteenth Century; Ira M. Lapidus, Mamluk Patronage and the Arts in Egypt: Concluding Remarks)

King, Donald and David Sylvester
1983 The Eastern Carpet in the Western World from the 15th to the 17th Century. Arts Council of Great Britain, London.

See especially Cairene carpets in the Mamluk style, pp. 59-64; Other Holbein, Para-Mamluk and Compartment carpets, pp. 64-67; Cairene carpets in the Ottoman style, pp. 79-83.

Kühnel, Ernst and Louisa Bellinger
1957 Cairene Rugs and Others Technically Related (15th - 17th Century). The Textile Museum, Washington.

Mackie, Louise
1983 Woven Status: Mamluk Silks and Carpets, The Muslim World, vol. LXXIII, no. 3-4, pp. 259-260.

Pinner, Robert and Walter B. Denny
1986 Oriental Carpet and Textile Studies, vol. 2. Carpets of the Mediterranean Countries, 1400 - 1600 (Based upon the Special Sessions of the 4th International Conference on Oriental Carpets). Hali/OCTS, Hali Publications, London.

See especially articles by *Borolevi, Rogers, Raby, Aslanapa, Irwin, *Spuhler, Pinner, Ellis, *Housego, Denny

Compiled 1/91 for the exhibition Beyond the Pyramids: Geometry and Design in the Carpets of Egypt, 1450 -1750, by Carol Bier