Ottoman Gardens
This catalogue offers essential source information on 114 Ottoman gardens from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Although most of the gardens included here are located in the three Ottoman capitals (Bursa, Edirne, and Istanbul), information can also be found on Ottoman gardens in Erzurum, Amasya, and Plovdiv.
Andalusian Gardens
The first catalogue in the project, this resource covers twenty-nine Andalusian gardens that were constructed under Umayyad, Almoravid, Almohad, and Nasrid rulers over parts of southern Iberia.
Mughal Gardens
The twelve Mughal gardens from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries selected for this catalogue were all located along the Grand Trunk Road. It traversed the Indian subcontinent, from modern-day Bangladesh to Pakistan.
Early Islamic Gardens of Greater Syria
This catalogue lists and illustrates seven of the earliest known and documented gardens of the Islamic world between the eighth and ninth centuries. These were all located around modern-day Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq, and were part of the Ummayad and Abbasid palace complexes.
Safavid Gardens
The nineteen gardens in this catalogue were selected because they were extensively illustrated, including in sixteenth-century Ottoman miniatures and sketches of nineteenth-century European orientalists.
North African Gardens
The relative paucity of formal garden spaces in the medieval and early modern Maghrib reveals a relationship with the landscape that differs from elsewhere in the Islamic world.
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