Arabic miniature

Arabic miniatures are small paintings on paper, usually book or manuscript illustrations but also sometimes separate artworks. The earliest date from around 1000 AD, with a flourishing of the artform from around 1200 AD.[1][2]

Arabic miniature artists include Ismail al-Jazari, who illustrated his own Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices.[3]

Gallery

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  Kitāb mukhtār al-ḥikam by Al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik, 13th century manuscript
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  Arabic miniature featuring Harith Gassani
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  Hadith Bayad wa Riyad, an illustrated manuscript from al-Andalus
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  Maqamat of al-Hariri,(43rd maqam) The Story of the Lost Traveler
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  Maqamat of al-Hariri. Village scene with animals by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti
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  Abû Zayd preaches in the mosque of Samarkand, circa 1300. Maqamat of al-Hariri Syrian manuscript
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  Elephant clock by al-Jazari
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  Arab dhow, c. 1230 AD, by an Iraqi painter
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  A giraffe from Kitāb al-ḥayawān (Book of the Animals) by Al-Jahiz
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  Arabic manuscript illumination from the 12th century CE showing the Brethren of Purity
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  1310 Syrian illustration of Kalila wa-Dimna
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  The Maqamat of Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani, 9th century
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  The frontispiece of a manuscript of Kitab al-Aghani of Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani
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  Maqamat of al-Hariri by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti
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  Kitāb mukhtār al-ḥikam by Al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik, Syrian manuscript circa 1250

See also

• Baghdad School

References

1. "Miniature Painting". The David Collection. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
2. "Islamic Miniature Painting and Book Illumination" (PDF). Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 28 (10): 166–171. October 1933.
3. al-Jazari, The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices: Kitáb fí ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya, transl. & anno. Donald R. Hill. (1973), Springer Science+Business Media.