Cairo - Museum of Islamic Art

Abbasid and Tulunid Periods

Room 3: Abbasid (750-867) and Tulunid (668-905) periods: glazed pottery with stylized decoration; stucco work from dwelling houses; Late Sassanid metalwork; gravestones with Kufic inscriptions.

Museum of Islamic Arts - 18th Century Room

Room 10: 18th C. room with a fountain and a beautiful carved wooden stalactitic ceiling.

Museum of Islamic Arts - Arabic Books

Room 19: Arabic books and manuscripts (book illumination).

Museum of Islamic Arts - Arms and Armor

Room 12: arms and armor.

Museum of Islamic Arts - Asia Minor

Room 20: glass, pottery, metalwork and carpets from Asia Minor.

Museum of Islamic Arts - Court

Court (No. 18): inscriptions on stone in Kufic and Neshi script; stone-carving.

Museum of Islamic Arts - Egyptian Faience

Room 13: Egyptian faience, mainly of the Fatimid period; 18th and 19th C. tapestries.

Museum of Islamic Arts - Egyptian Library

Museum of Islamic Arts - Faience and Porcelain

Rooms 14-16: faience and porcelain from other countries.

Museum of Islamic Arts - Fatimid Period

Museum of Islamic Arts - Fatimid and Ayyubid Periods

Room 6: woodwork of the Fatimid and Ayyubid periods, including a door from the El-Azhar Mosque (1010).

Museum of Islamic Arts - Furniture and Metalwork

Room 9: inlaid furniture and metalwork of the Mameluke period.

Museum of Islamic Arts - Islamic Chronology

Vestibule and Room l. chronology of the Islamic dynasties of Egypt; glass and pottery.

Museum of Islamic Arts - Mameluke Metalwork

Room 11: metalwork of the Mameluke period.

Museum of Islamic Arts - Mameluke Style

Room 5. Mameluke style (1250-1517): architectural elements and elaborate damascene work from Cairo's artistic heyday.

Museum of Islamic Arts - Omayyad Period

Room 2: applied art of the Omayyad period (661-750), including a richly decorated bronze vessel (eighth C.) from Abusir.

Museum of Islamic Arts - Persian Pottery

Museum of Islamic Arts - Temporary Exhibitions

Room 23: temporary exhibitions of material from the Museum's reserves.

Museum of Islamic Arts - Textiles

Room 17: textiles (7th-17th C.).

Islamic artisans developed a high degree of technological skill in the creation of textiles. They were a major influence on what was eventually produced throughout Europe and North Africa.

Museum of Islamic Arts - Woodcarving

Rooms 7 and 8: woodcarving, intarsia and inlay work of the Ayyubid and Mameluke periods.

Museum of Islamic Arts Glass Lamps

Room 21: glass; collection of glass lamps from mosques.