| Islamic Patterns : an analytical and cosmological approach | |
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| Perhaps most importantly, the Word, expressed in endless calligraphic variations, always conveys the impression that it is more enduring than the objects on which it is inscribed |
| Government of India Central Publication Branch | Timurid Art and Culture — Iran and Central Asia in the Fifteenth Century eds Golombek, L |
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| Much of the art of Islam, whether in architecture, ceramics, textiles or books, is the art of decoration — which is to say, of transformation | van den Hoeven, Saskia, van der Veen, Maartje |
| "Artisans and Mathematicians in Medieval Islam | |
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