Multimedia Resources

Images

• Map:Middle East in 6th Century
• Map:The First 25 Years of Conquest
• Map:The Islamic Empire in 750
• Map:Early Arab Invasions
• Map:Muslim Expansion after Muhammad's Death
• Map:The Abbasid Caliphate, 786-809
• Map:Mediterranean in the Ninth Century
• The Kaaba
• The Kaaba During Haj
• The Black Stone
• Qu'ran [Kufic Script]
• Qu'ran [Cursive Script]
• Muhammad's Armies in Battle
• Muhammad [Western picture -- Most modern Muslims do not portray the Prophet, although there are images of him in Persian and Turkish art]
• Muhammad on a camel/ Jesus on Donkey - MS of Rashid-al-din Color
• Muhammad appoints Ali-as Successor Safavid MS/BW
  A Shi'ite image in which Muhammad and Ali's faces are obscured by flames.
• Al-Hallaj Martyrdom 17C Walters Gallery, Baltimore
  Al-Hallaj was an important early Sufi saint, who was crucified in Baghdad.
• Dome of the Rock: Exterior and Another View
• Dome of the Rock: Interior
• Baghdad
• Great Mosque of Cordoba (785/6) - interior
• Muslim Household in Spain
• Barberini Vase Syria, Middle of the 13th century
• Cup: Iran, End of 12th-beginning of 13th century
• Muslim Figures
• Averroes (Ibn Rushd d.1198)
• Avicenna (Ibn Sina, d. 1037)
• Muslim Astronomers
• Celestial Sphere Signed by Yunus Ibn al-Husayn al-Asturlabi, Iran, Isphahan? 1144-1145

Sound/Recommended Recordings

• Surah 1: Audio [Strictly speaking Qu'ranic chanting is "cantillation" rather than music]
• Surah 47: Audio
• The Qu'ran [At Islam.org]
  The page contains both the texts of the Qu'ran in various languages and recordings of each Surah being chanted.

The Music of Islam (Sampler)
Music of Islam (Celestial Harmonies Series)
Celestial Harmonies

The Music of Islam [BOX SET - 17 CDS]
Celestial Harmonies

Mouwachah - Arabo-Andalusian Songs
Aida Chalhoub, et al
Studia SM D 2669 SM 50