Online collections of images of people and places from around the Islamic Middle East

Iran, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

Contemporary Iran(recent photos by Mohammad Eslami-Rad)

Afghanistan (photos by Luke Powell)

Bukhara, the Capital of Uzbekistan

KhorasanThe home province of both Abolqasem Ferdowsi (Shahnama) and Faridoddin Attar (Conference of the Birds)

The City of Isfahan in Iran One of the few great medieval Islamic Cities to survive into the present day. Exhaustively explored in this remarkable website.

The Levant

• Palestine (photos by Luke Powell)

Egypt

• Cairo and other locations in Egypt (Black and white photos - mostly dating from the pre-WWI period - from the Middle East Photo Archive of the University of Chicago)

North Africa

• Morocco (photos by James Miller)

Islamic Art and Architecture

• Textual & Visual Resources on Islamic Architecture at:
  MIT's Rotch Library and Rotch Visual Collections The Aga Khan Collection
  Mosques:
  • in the United Staes
• Mosques
  • The Mosque of Ibn Arabi in Damascus
  • The Mosques and Shrines of Isfahan
    The Minarets of Isfahan
    This is a very rich site and well worth exploring at length.