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Islamic Architecture
Added: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Hits: 337
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Islamic architecture website contains illustrated descriptions and reviews of a large number of mosques, palaces and monuments. The site features illustrated essays on Islamic art, covering calligraphy, carpets, geometry/floral patterns, metal work, as well as landscape of Islamic countries.


Islamic and Arabic Cross-stitch
Added: Monday, October 19, 2009 Hits: 226
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An Islamic site focuses on Islamic and Arabic cross-stitch designed in different types with written Names of Allah, Muhammad, and Islamic words. It contains simple counted cross-stitch patterns based on Arabic calligraphy, mainly Islamic phrases.


I Bring What I Love
Added: Thursday, August 20, 2009 Hits: 608
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This is a volatile website specially made for an initiative, an audio visual song of hope released by Youssou N'Dour (a Senegalese) in which he aims to promote a more tolerant face of Islam.


Mosque
Added: Monday, May 11, 2009 Hits: 213
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Thousands of mosques have been built over the years in different parts of the world with sophisticated architecture. Mosques are symbol of Islam and its principles. Here are some of the most important mosques around the world.


Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Added: Sunday, February 22, 2009 Hits: 236
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This is the site for Harvard University based program of Aga khan for Islamic architecture dedicated to the study of Islamic art and architecture, urbanism, landscape design, and conservation – and the application of that knowledge to contemporary design projects.


American Ramadan
Added: Thursday, August 28, 2008 Hits: 178
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A Ramadan website simply made for an Islamic film made for Ramadan in the history of American Muslim experience. The film produced and masterfully captured by first time director Naeem Randhawa. "American Ramadan" explores and reveals the holiest of rituals, shared by the Abrahamic traditions, but practised by more.


Our Aqsa
Added: Sunday, March 16, 2008 Hits: 155
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An academically specialized website on all what related to Al-Aqsa mosque, in terms of history; chronicle of occurrences; dispute and misconceptions, locations and renovations, ridicules and attempts. etc. The site, showing the real love of Al-Aqsa mosque, is completion of other establishments in the study and publicity of the mosque through the work of researchers in the sciences of Al-Aqsa and Islamic Jerusalem studies.


New York Film Academy
Added: Monday, February 25, 2008 Hits: 228
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This is a film academy website aims at a belief that a top quality education in filmmaking should be accessible to anyone with the drive and ambition to make films. To achieve this aim, NYFA has opened several film academies in schools, colleges and universities where one-year and short-term programmes are held throughout the year.


Global Guide to Culture, Customs and Etiquette (Country Profiles)
Added: Monday, December 17, 2007 Hits: 56
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A site for global guide to understanding other people's language, cultures, etiquettes and taboos which is of great value to the traveler or visiting business person. The site contains a concise interesting and comprehensive information on a selected number of countries.


Facts and Information about Countries and Cultures
Added: Monday, December 17, 2007 Hits: 58
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The summary fact-book of selected countries around the world with explicit details of the historical facts of certain countries with colossal biographies or landscape. The site contains the list of country with its remarkable places and history.


Mosques in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Added: Monday, December 17, 2007 Hits: 113
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Here are the mosques and glimpses in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, especially glimpses from Nabawy Mosque, Madina.


Mosques Around the World
Added: Monday, December 17, 2007 Hits: 435
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Here you can find numbers of mosques around the with historical background of each mosque and image. It is all listed with the name of the country of location.


Mosques Directory
Added: Monday, December 17, 2007 Hits: 113
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Here is the directory of mosques around the world in different albums and categories with several random images of mosques and Islamic centres.


Al-Aqsa Mosque
Added: Monday, December 17, 2007 Hits: 273
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The website created and run by the Masjid Al-Aqsa Awareness Trust, a group believed in educating the world and presenting Masjid Aqsa to the Muslims, and non-Muslims. The site contains information about the mosque; news, history, site and sighting images of the mosque.


Masjid Al-Aqsa
Added: Monday, December 17, 2007 Hits: 82
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This link shows the inner image of Al-Aqsa mosque and token historical background of the mosque as well as the significance of Bayt Al-Maqdis, the abandoned holy mosque in Jerusalem. The link dedicated to revealing all about the mosque.


Cross Cultural Solutions
Added: Monday, December 17, 2007 Hits: 43
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Kwintessential is a vital online guide that assigns to the intercultural communication as a 'must' in the global and inter-reliant economies by bringing world cultures into closer awareness. The site indicates that business success is now more and more about understanding and nurturing strong relationships with international and multicultural colleagues, customers and clients.


Mosques Around the world
Added: Monday, December 17, 2007 Hits: 113
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Here are the listings of the mosques around the world with sight-seeing images.


Mosques Around the World
Added: Monday, December 17, 2007 Hits: 523
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Different mosques around the world with short historical background of each mosque and the activities carried out therein.


Islamic Art Network
Added: Monday, October 29, 2007 Hits: 75
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This website is a project undertaken by the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, a charitable, non-profit foundation that was established to advance, support and promote the protection, preservation, study and dissemination of the Islamic intellectual, cultural and artistic patrimony by any means deemed appropriate.


Arab Art Gallery
Added: Monday, December 11, 2006 Hits: 108
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Arab Art Gallery: featuring a large collection of modern Islamic artworks containing verses from the Holy Quran.It also contains ancient Arabian and Mid-Eastern fashion artworks.


Islamic Art
Added: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 Hits: 272
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art contains a collection of artworks from around the world represents a variety of civilizations and historical periods. The site emphasize the Islamic Heritage and the role played by Muslims to enrich culture. Samples of Islamic artworks included.


Islamic Arts in Cyprus
Added: Thursday, July 27, 2006 Hits: 116
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Here online is the site displays a merely historical chronology about Islam and its arts in Cyprus. It exposes the many series of historical traces of Islam in Cyprus with illustrations as well as Islamic resources to learn more about Islam.


ARABESK DESIGN
Added: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 Hits: 513
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Arabesk Design is a company of experienced artists specialized in Arabian and Islamic artworks of different genres and techniques. Being experts from a fine art academy, the site therefore displays different artworks of Arabian and Islamic models in both ancient and modern outfits and more…


Ayats and Art
Added: Monday, February 20, 2006 Hits: 136
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Unique and creative Islamic calligraphy on various types of woods and stained glass. Each piece has an artistic element of its own possessing its own character to enlighten any home, office or prayer room.


Traditional Islamic Calligraphy & Arts
Added: Monday, November 28, 2005 Hits: 440
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This site contains unique and creative Islamic calligraphy on various types of woods and stained glass. Each piece has an artistic element of its own possessing and character to enlighten any home, office or prayer room.


Islamic Arts & Culture
Added: Thursday, September 22, 2005 Hits: 420
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Here are the samples of Islamic Arts and Culture in the olden days of Islam. The site hosts different galleries and libraries of Islamic Arts and the Cultural Academy of Islam – the entry that covers Islamic history, art and architecture, literature, math and science, culture.


Artislamic.com
Added: Monday, September 19, 2005 Hits: 215
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Artislamic.com is an online digital art and photograph gallery where over 1500 specially designed 2D and 3D calligraphy drawings and specially taken photos were displayed. The gallery contains landscape and nature views, flower photos, Islamic arts and calligraphy, artworks with the name of Allah, free e-card service with Islamic graphics and nature views and free Islamic wallpapers.


Arabian and Islamic Culture
Added: Thursday, February 03, 2005 Hits: 207
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This is a site for Arabian and Islamic culture from different part of middle-east and suburbs. It displays different genres of culture in its historical unique as well as current notable cultural events.


Dr. Youssef Zeidan for Heritage and Manuscripts
Added: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 Hits: 171
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This is a personal redemptive site translated from Arabic manuscript of Dr. Youssef Zeidan. It is meant to enliven the Arab/Islamic heritage. It gathers what was scattered, corrects the misconceptions accumulated in contemporary minds and reveals a bright page in the history of mankind.


Islamic Art Network
Added: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 Hits: 241
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Islamic Art Network is a standard resource for scholars in the field of Islamic Art and Architecture. It includes all the French and Arabic Bulletins issued by the Comite de Conservation des Monuments de l’Art Arabe, a Photo Archive of photographs of Islamic Cairo and a map of Cairo.


Ali Omar Ermes
Added: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 Hits: 406
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This site features the unique work of the famous artist Ali Omar Ermes, whose artwork is principally based on the Arabic letter forms. It includes online artwork, articles, speeches, events, services, exciting discussions and intellectual issues.


Arab Art Gallery
Added: Monday, November 25, 2002 Hits: 343
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Arab art gallery is dedicated to the promotion of the fine Islamic arts, while also sponsors a cultural and creative dialogue among the people of the Arab world. Arab Art Gallery seeks to strengthen the vitality and appreciation of Arab arts and to help today’s visual expression take its deserved place as a cornerstone in the building of contemporary Arab culture.


The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Added: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 Hits: 149
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The galleries offer one of the Western world's most refined collections of Asian art and the finest collection of paintings. The Freer Gallery houses a world-renowned collection of art from China, Japan, Korea, South and Southeast Asia, and the Near East. Visitor favorites include Chinese paintings, Japanese folding screens, Korean ceramics, Indian and Persian manuscripts.


Bulgarian Art Collection
Added: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 Hits: 194
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In association with the central library of Bulgarian Academy of Science, and gallery Lessedra, this site presents a collection of Bulgarian Fine and Applied Artworks on the Internet collected by a group of enthusiastic people who want to show to the world as much Bulgarian art as possible. The site includes paintings, graphic art and sculptures.


Artmonthly
Added: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 Hits: 184
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Art Monthly is a contemporary visual art magazine based in the UK and Published 10 times a year. It keeps art lovers in touch with today's fast-moving world of art, through in-depth features, interviews with leading lights, profiles on rising stars and up-to-the-minute coverage of trends from independent critics. The site includes listing of upcoming art exhibitions inside the United Kingdom and internationally.


Outdoor Recreation Research
Added: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 Hits: 145
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This page is part of the Natural Resources Research Information Pages. It is intended to serve as an Internet resource guide for outdoor recreation students, researchers and practitioners. For exploring Cyberspace there are several general catalogs and search machines listed at the end of this page.


i-craft
Added: Thursday, October 17, 2002 Hits: 169
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i-craft.com presents free craft projects for kids, seniors, and the dedicated crafter who is looking for fresh ideas. It includes a section that’s devoted to assisting teachers in planning craft activities for children.


Founders of The Arts & Crafts Movement from Burrows.com
Added: Thursday, October 17, 2002 Hits: 156
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J.R. Burrows & Company are a specialist decorative furnishings supplier of the English tradition arts and crafts. Burrows.com includes an anthology of writings on interior design by William Morris and his contemporaries and information about the early years of the movement in England and America.


The Internet Art Database
Added: Thursday, May 30, 2002 Hits: 164
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The Internet Art Database is a large fine art listing service on the Web. It contains art from thousands of collectors, artists and dealers, promoting buying, selling and bids. Fine-art.com includes as well information on galleries, artists, art’s categories and an art web directory.


Bulgarian Art Database
Added: Thursday, May 30, 2002 Hits: 206
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Bulgarian Art Includes a Collection of Bulgarian Fine and Applied Arts on the Internet. The paintings page contains sum of 150 artwork; the site includes as well pages for sculptures and graphic arts.


Arts & Crafts Society
Added: Sunday, May 26, 2002 Hits: 166
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This site has been created to provide an online "home" for the present-day Arts & Crafts Movement community. Arts-crafts.com includes an international listing of Arts & Crafts related happenings - conferences, shows, exhibits, tours. auctions, symposiums & lectures, standing with a searchable bibliography and related resources section, including sources (both original & contemporary), annotations and images. It also includes an interactive discussion forum with experts, researchers and collectors on many varied and changing Arts & Crafts related topics.


Arts & Crafts Movement
Added: Sunday, May 26, 2002 Hits: 208
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The Victorian style of heavily ornamented interiors displaying many pieces of furniture, collections of small ornamental objects, and surfaces covered with fringed cloths prevailed in middle-class homes in England and America during the latter half of the 19th century. Gray-Cells spots light on the movement of Arts & Crafts during that period and up to date.


Arabian Collections Gallery
Added: Thursday, January 31, 2002 Hits: 4877
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Arabian Collections Gallery is specialized in traditional Middle Eastern, Arab and Islamic art. The Arabian Collection's workmanship meets the recognized rigorous standards of the British Fine Art Trade Guide and the American Professional Picture Framers Association, by using the required materials and equipments. It also supplies framed artworks for residential and corporate clients.


Isfahan Web Server
Added: Thursday, January 31, 2002 Hits: 148
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The city of Isfahan has been designated by UNESCO as a world heritage. It contains a wide range of Islamic Architectural styles ranging from the 11th century (C.E.) to the 19th. This site spots light on the history and the Islamic architecture of the Shie’t city, and offers a photos database.


Hand Painted Mosques
Added: Thursday, January 31, 2002 Hits: 168
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The Muslim Students Association of University of Alabama presents on this site a collection of hand painted representations for fourteen mosques by the expert Chinese artist, Sean Wang, under the direction of the creative and talented staff at Amica Design. The paintings have a fine attention to detail and authenticity while adding an elegance to the incredible Islamic architecture.


The Khalili Collections
Added: Thursday, January 31, 2002 Hits: 219
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The Khalili Collection represents a distinguished generation of Islamic art collections. Its holdings include a collection of miniature paintings, illustrated manuscripts and ceramics. The more than 20.000 objects collection, documents the entire artistic production of the Islamic lands over a period of some 1400 years.


Islamic Pictures.com
Added: Thursday, January 31, 2002 Hits: 281
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IslamicPictures.com is a division of Osiris Picture Framing Art Gallery and was established in 1989. The head gallery is located in Vancouver, Canada. The second gallery is located in Germany. It is dedicated to provide the world with beautiful, unique and quality Islamic Art.


Arabesque - Hispano Moresque Decoration
Added: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 Hits: 227
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Arabesque Moresque is specialized in Hispanic mosques, architectural designs, decoration, ornamental installation and Moroccan-Andalusian furniture production. AM aims to preserve, protect and promote Moroccan Andalusian architectural heritage by constructing, decorating and refurbishing the most prestigious places that reflect the beauty of mosques decoration art.


Lotus Art
Added: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 Hits: 168
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LotusArt is a small, Family-Owned Islamic art shop in rural Pennsylvania. The calligraphy used in engravings are exclusively designed by LotusArt. The designs are of the most exquisite detail and then are engraved into the highest quality Cherry Hardwoods, ready for display in homes, prayer rooms, offices or masjids.


International Muslimah Artists Network
Added: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 Hits: 227
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The International Muslimah Artists Network (IMAN) was established as a non profit international organization created by and for Muslim women artists to promote the artistic achievements of Muslim women around the world. IMAN is a new and growing organization for both established artists and those aspiring and studying to become accomplished in the field.


Art & Architecture
Added: Thursday, January 17, 2002 Hits: 166
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The Art Server is a project of the National Australian University. It contains 185000 images including art, architectures and museums arranged by country that are mainly from the Mediterranean Basin and Japan.


A-node.net
Added: Sunday, November 25, 2001 Hits: 194
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A-node.net is a collection of technology and design sites, focusing on architecture and art. The foundation supplies technology resources and information for artists and architects. The site contains news, links and forums.


Archibot
Added: Sunday, November 25, 2001 Hits: 132
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Archibot.com is an architecture portal and smart meta search engine includes a selected list of online resources and updated news headlines from around the net. The site contains discussion forums, projects reviews, posting and rating projects.


Architectural Reference
Added: Sunday, November 25, 2001 Hits: 144
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ModernArchitecture.com is to be the hub of the new Modern Architecture Open Database. This new international project is an effort to catalog and distribute the largest free architectural database on the web. This database is to be a joint effort by the architecture community, initiated through partnerships with the most useful architecture sites on the planet.


Cities and Buildings Image Database
Added: Sunday, November 25, 2001 Hits: 241
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The Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web. The online multimedia collections built under auspices of the University of Washington Libraries' Digital Initiatives Program. Over 5500 images of architecture and city views from around the world are included.


Design4Design
Added: Sunday, November 25, 2001 Hits: 140
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Design4design is a London based online resource center for the professionals of architecture field and interior design industries. The site includes articles, news, events, features and listings.


Godden Structural Engineering Slide Library
Added: Sunday, November 25, 2001 Hits: 149
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A collection of 900 engineering captioned slides from around the world for historic and modern structures, including beams, arches, cable and suspension, domes and shells, columns, frames, grids, slabs and trusses.


Sakkal Design
Added: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 Hits: 196
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Sakkal.com is a gateway to the Arabic and Islamic art, Arabic calligraphy, graphic and web design, clip art and computer illustration. The site Includes articles, resources, custom and Eid greeting cards, art works images, reviews, and more.


Great Buildings
Added: Sunday, August 26, 2001 Hits: 209
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GreatBuildings.com is a gateway to architecture around the world and across history. It documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds. The site includes a special corner for the Islamic architecture across history from Egypt, Jerusalem, Damascus, Istanbul and other Islamic regions.


Islamic Art, Music, and Architecture Around The World
Added: Sunday, August 26, 2001 Hits: 156
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A useful approach to Islam is through Islamic art. The recently published curriculum guide Doorways to Islamic Art, contains a series of slides, an accompanying narrative, and guides to "hands-on" art projects, as well as other materials, all of which are designed to immerse students in the beauty of Islamic art.



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