Medieval Islamic Textiles

Recent Work

Baker, Patricia L.
1995 Islamic Textiles. British Museum Press, London.

Blair, Sheila, Jonathan Max Bloom and Anne E. Wardwell
1992 Reevaluating the Date of the ‘Buyid’ Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis, Ars Orientalis 22, pp.1-42.

Bloom, Jonathan and Sheila Blair
1997 Islamic Arts. Phaidon, London.

Eilers, W., M. Bazin, C. Bromberger, and D. Thompson
1983 Abrisam, Encyclopaedia Iranica, edited by Ehsan Yarshater, pp. 229-247, vol. 1, fascicle 3, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, Boston.

Mackie, Louise
1996 Increase the Prestige: Islamic Textiles, Arts of Asia, vol. 26, no. 1, pp.

1984 Toward an Understanding of Mamluk Silks: National and International Considerations, Muqarnas 2, pp. 127-146.

Schmidt, H. J., N. Steengaard, H. Inalcik, and A.K. Gharaibeg
1971 Harir, The Encyclopedia of Islam, revised edition, vol. 3, pp. 209-221, E. J. Brill and Luzac & Co., Leiden and London.

von Wilckens, Leonie
1992 Mittelalterliche Seidenstoffe. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin -- Kunstgewerbemuseum, Bestandskataloge 18, Berlin.

1991 Die textilen Künste von der Spatantike bis um 1500. Munich.

1987 Zur kunstgeschichtlichen Einordnung der Bamberger Textilfunde, Textile Grabfunde aus der Sepultur des Bamberger Domkapitels. Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, Arbeitsheft 33, pp. 62-79. Munich.

Wardwell, Anne E.
1989 Panni Tartarici: Eastern Islamic Silks Woven with Gold and Silver (13th and 14th Centuries), Islamic Art, III, pp. 95-174.

See also working bibliographies on Tiraz, and Yemen.
Compiled 5/98 by Carol Bier