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Timeline / Islamic Art

Islamic Art

Near East, North Africa, Iberia, Persia, Anatolia, South Asia

  1. 3500 BCE – 622.

    Ancient Near East
    1. Sumerian & Akkadian Art 3500 BCE – 2000 BCE
    2. Old Babylonian & Middle Bronze 2000 BCE – 900 BCE
    3. Assyrian & Babylonian Art 900 BCE – 539 BCE
    4. Achaemenid Persian Art 550 BCE – 330 BCE
    5. Hellenistic & Parthian Near East 330 BCE – 224.
    6. Sasanian Art 224. – 622.
  2. 622. – 950.

    Early Caliphates
    1. Formative Islamic Art 622. – 661.
    2. Umayyad Art 661. – 750.
    3. Early Abbasid Art 750. – 950.
  3. 950. – 1258.

    Medieval Islamic Courts
    1. Later Abbasid & Buyid Sphere 950. – 1258.
    2. Fatimid, Maghribi & Andalusi Art 950. – 1258.
    3. Seljuk Art 1037. – 1258.
    4. Persianate Court Arts 950. – 1258.
  4. 1258. – 1800.

    Post-Mongol & Gunpowder Empires
    1. Timurid & Later Persianate Painting 1258. – 1501.
    2. Ottoman Art 1299. – 1800.
    3. Safavid Art 1501. – 1736.
    4. Mughal Art 1526. – 1800.
  5. 1800. – Present

    Modern Islamic Art
    1. Colonial & Early Modernist 1800. – 1950.
    2. Contemporary Islamic & Diaspora 1950. – Present