Fine mosque lamps are oil lamps that typically have a large round body and a narrower neck that flares towards the top. They were often made with internal...

Museum. These pottery mosque lamps are of a similar shape to Mamluk glass lamps. There was a tradition of hanging pottery lamps in mosques dating back at least...

After mosque lamps, the most common shape is a tall beaker, flaring towards the top. This was made somewhat differently from the mosque lamps, the flaring...

content, other than inscriptions, although the mosque lamp was mainly used in religious contexts, to light mosques, but it uses the decorative styles of Islamic...

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and gilding became the most important techniques of decorating glass. Mosque lamps had a bulbous body with a wide flaring neck at the top. They were produced...

century, Brooklyn Museum. Quranic inscriptions, Bara Gumbad mosque, Delhi, India. Typical mosque lamp, of enamelled glass, with the Ayat an-Nur or "Verse of...

fittings had not previously made much use of glass in Europe; the enamelled mosque lamp of Islamic art was a different matter. But cut glass "drops", faceted...

is in current use. The mosque was built in the Kerala-Islamic traditional Vastu shastra architectural style, with hanging lamps, making the historicity...

Compostela that were looted by Al-Mansur (and which had been turned into mosque lamps) back to Santiago de Compostela. Despite the conversion, the early Christian...

Haft-rang Islamic calligraphy Islamic geometric patterns Jali Mo'araq Mosque lamp Muqarnas Nagash painting Qashani Sebka (Darj-wa-ktaf) Shabaka Shamsa...

Samarkand. By about 1500 the Venetians were receiving large orders for mosque lamps. Medieval Islamic metalwork offers a complete contrast to its European...

The Rüstem Pasha Mosque (Turkish: Rüstem Paşa Camii) is an Ottoman mosque located in the Hasırcılar Çarşısı (Strawmat Weavers Market) in the Tahtakale...

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The Blue Mosque, officially the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Turkish: Sultan Ahmet Camii), is an Ottoman-era historical imperial mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey...

the divine or a symbolic connection to the mosque architecture. Many rugs also show one or more mosque lamps, a reference to the Verse of Light in the...

prayer rug, dervish clothing (including Mevlâna's) and four crystal-glass mosque lamps (16th century, Egyptian Mameluk period). In this room there is also a...

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given a new foot in metalwork in Europe, as here. There is also a large mosque lamp with enamelled decoration from the late 14th century. Romanesque art...

the Topkapı Palace and other buildings in Constantinople, including large mosque complexes decorated inside with architectural inscriptions. For much of...

The Goaldi Mosque is a mosque in the historic Bengali capital of Sonargaon, in Narayanganj District, in the Dhaka Division of Bangladesh. It was built...

"Painted" enamelled glass, Egyptian mosque lamp, 14th century...

multifoil arches were developed by the Umayyads and can be found in a small mosque at Qasr al-Hallabat, one of the Umayyad Desert Castles, in present-day Jordan...

Two astrolabes of copper, 14th-18th century Gilded and enameled glass mosque lamp, Mamluk period "Largest Islamic art museum reopens after 8 years", CBC...

been understood as a prayer rug design, because a pendant resembling a mosque lamp is suspended from one of the niches. The resulting design scheme resembles...

of the endowment of the al-Aqsa Mosque and Haseki Sultan Imaret was dedicated to maintain the lighting of an oil-lamp in the Dome of the Prophet each...

artists such as John Singer Sargent and William Orpen. A Mamuluk glass mosque lamp, once belonging to Sassoon can be found in the collection of the Calouste...

writer, activist, and lawyer from Karnataka. She is best known for Heart Lamp, a selection of her short stories translated by Deepa Bhasthi, which won...

representing the mihrab in every mosque, a directional point to direct the worshipper towards Mecca. Often one or more mosque lamps hang from the point of the...

centuries), with an early appearance in the funerary section of the Qarawiyyin Mosque (in Fez) dating from the early 12th century.: 232  Examples are of this...