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Your Digital Library on the Built Environment, focused on Muslim Societies

From the civilizations that influenced Islamic culture at its very beginning, to contemporary Muslim communities around the world, Archet is working with you to make resources available to researchers, scholars, and practitioners.

Some of the most popular resources in April 2025
  • Site: The Friday Mosque of Isfahan
    A prominent architectural expression of the Seljuk rule in Persia (1038-1118)
  • Site: The Great Mosque of Damascus
    Considered the first monumental work of architecture in Islamic history
  • Site: The Blue Mosque in Istanbul
    Considered the last great expression of Classical Ottoman architecture
  • Collection: Early 20th c. Morocco & the Mediterranean
    The 19 boxes in this collection contain turn-of-the-20th century photographs of Tangier, Morocco, Algeria, Spain and France
  • Collection: Kamil and Rifat Chadirji Photographic Archive
    Photographs by the prominent Iraqi politician Kami Chadirji and his son, AKAA Chairman's Award recipient Rifat Chadirji documenting decades of Iraqi culture
  • Collection: Ernst Cohn-Wiener: Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
    Photographs from Cohn-Wiener's research expeditions in 1924 and 1925. many documenting sites that are no-longer extant
  • Publications: Drawings of Islamic Monuments
    This collection contains frequently access drawings of approximately 200 major monuments
  • Publication: Muqarnas XXXV
    The 2018 volume of Muqarnas contains articles on Marrakesh, Delhi, Baghdad, and more.
  • Publication: Conservation as Cultural Survival
    The proceedings of the 1980 seminar Two in the series Architectural Transformations in the Islamic World

Archnet
Your Digital Library on the Built Environment, focused on Muslim Societies

From the civilizations that influenced Islamic culture at its very beginning, to contemporary Muslim communities around the world, Archet is working with you to make resources available to researchers, scholars, and practitioners.

Some of the most popular resources in April 2025
  • Site: The Friday Mosque of Isfahan
    A prominent architectural expression of the Seljuk rule in Persia (1038-1118)
  • Site: The Great Mosque of Damascus
    Considered the first monumental work of architecture in Islamic history
  • Site: The Blue Mosque in Istanbul
    Considered the last great expression of Classical Ottoman architecture
  • Collection: Early 20th c. Morocco & the Mediterranean
    The 19 boxes in this collection contain turn-of-the-20th century photographs of Tangier, Morocco, Algeria, Spain and France
  • Collection: Kamil and Rifat Chadirji Photographic Archive
    Photographs by the prominent Iraqi politician Kami Chadirji and his son, AKAA Chairman's Award recipient Rifat Chadirji documenting decades of Iraqi culture
  • Collection: Ernst Cohn-Wiener: Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
    Photographs from Cohn-Wiener's research expeditions in 1924 and 1925. many documenting sites that are no-longer extant
  • Publications: Drawings of Islamic Monuments
    This collection contains frequently access drawings of approximately 200 major monuments
  • Publication: Muqarnas XXXV
    The 2018 volume of Muqarnas contains articles on Marrakesh, Delhi, Baghdad, and more.
  • Publication: Conservation as Cultural Survival
    The proceedings of the 1980 seminar Two in the series Architectural Transformations in the Islamic World