Dictionaries and Glossaries of Art Terms

Online

Petersen, Andrew Dictionary of Islamic Architecture. London, 1996. (RFA 270.69.1)

This dictionary is available and searchable online via Archnet.

The Islamic Art Network. Technical Glossary [online].

The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture. 3 vols. Oxford, 2009. (RFA 270.33)

Includes all the entries on Islamic art and architecture from the Grove Dictionary of Art Online.

Arseven, Celâl Esad. Istılâhât-ı mimariye. İstanbul, 1324 [1906].

The first modern (Ottoman) Turkish dictionary of architectural terms; available online.

In-Library

‘Isa, Ahmad Muhammad. Islamic Art Terms (Lexicon, Explained and Illustrated). Istanbul, 1994. (RFA 195.4.3)

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture. Ed. Moya Carey. London, 2010. (FAL-LC N6260.I42 2010)

Dictionnaire des arts de l'islam. Ed. Jean-Paul Roux.  Paris, 2007. (RFA 271.77)

Bahnassi, Afif. Mu‘jam al-‘imārah wa-al-fann = Dictionary of Architecture and Arts. Beirut, 1995. (RFA 180.6)

Arabic-English/English-Arabic, with an added index in French.

Ghālib, 'Abd al-Raḥīm. Mawsu‘at al-‘imārah al-Islāmīyah: ‘Arabī-Faransī-Inkilīzī = Encyclopédie de l'architecture islamique: arabe-français-anglais. Beirut, 1988. (WID-LC MidEast NA380.G441988)

Amin, M.M., & Ibrahim, L.A. Musṭalaḥāt al-mi‘mārīyah fī-al-wathā'iq al-Mamlūkīyah (648-923 H. /1250-1517 M.) = Architectural Terms in Mamluk Documents (623-913 A.H./1250-1517 A.D.). Cairo, 1990. (FA 2010.460.3)

Martínez N., Fernando, & Hamurabi F. Noufouri. El diccionario del alarife, quinientos años después: recopilación comentada de vocablos de la lengua española de origen árabe, referentes a la arquitectura y sus artes afines. Buenos Aires, 1994. (RFA271.53)

Marzbān, P. & Marouf, H. An Illustrated Glossary of Visual Arts (Architecture, Sculpture, Painting): English-Persian, Persian-English. = Vāzhah'nāmah-i muṣavvar-i hunarhā-yi tajassumī (mi‘mārī, paykarah sāzī, naqqāshi). Tehran, 1986. (RFA 197.53.1)

Sözen, Metin & Tanyeli, Uǧur. Sanat kavram ve terimleri sözlüǧü: resim, heykel, mimarlık, geleneksel Türk sanatlari, uygulamalı sanatlar ve genel sanat kavramları. Istanbul, 1986. (RFA 198.82.1)

An illustrated dictionary of Turkish terminology for the fine arts, traditional arts and applied arts.

[Arseven], Celâl Esad. Fransızcadan Türkçeye ve Türkçeden Fransızcaya sanat kamusu = Dictionnaire des termes d’art Français-Turc, Turc-Français. Constantinople, 1924. (Widener: 2226.63.10)

The first modern (Ottoman) Turkish dictionary of art terminology.

Modern Turkish translation: Istılâhât–ı Mi'mâriyye: 

Osmanlı Dönemi Mimarlık Sözlüğü. Istanbul, 2017. (FAL-LC NA31 .A773 2017)
 

Sönmez, Neslihan. Osmanli dönemi yapı ve malzeme terimleri sözlüğü. Istanbul, 1997. (RFA 1235.61.82)

Ottoman terms related to construction and building materials.

Cafer Efendi. Risale-i Mimariyye: An Early-Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Treatise on Architecture. Ed. & transl. by H. Crane. Leiden & New York, 1987. (FA 1905.665.1)

Important primary source; includes a glossary of architectural terms.