Acknowledgements
We would like to express our gratitude to
OFID - The OPEC Fund for International Development
who are generously sponsoring this ongoing project and are providing The Center for Translation Studies of the
University of Vienna
with the funding required for the respective academic courses. Without this aid the project could not be realised. We owe sincere thanks to
AACC - Austro Arab Chamber of Commerce
having promoted the initial stage of this project.
We also owe many thanks to the experts and curators and the institutions listed below for their repeated and encouraging advice and indispensable assistance, making availble slides and text material regarding the objects now figuring on this website, and arranging for permission to be obtained for showing them in this virtual museum.
ÖNB –Austrian National Library
Dr. Ernst Gamillscheg
Dr. Andreas Fingernagel
MAK - Museum für Angewandte Kunst - Museum for Applied Arts
Dr. Johannes Wieninger
KHM - Kunsthistorische Museum Wien - Museum of Fine Arts
Dr. Matthias Pfaffenbichler
Dr. Katja Schmitz-von Ledebur
Museum für Völkerkunde - Museum of Ethnology
Dr. Christian Feest
Dr. Axel Steinmann
Museum of Military History
Mag. Dr. M. Christian Ortner
Dr. Christoph Hatschek
Musée du Louvre Paris, France
Carpet Museum of Iran, Tehran
Parisa Beyzaee
The National Museum of Iran, Tehran
Masoomeh Ahmadi
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Besucherdienst
Musée du Bardo
AMVPPC TUNISIE
Dar al-Makhtutat (House of Manuscripts)
Sanna´a, Republic of Yemen
Ursula Dreibholz
Museum of Jordan Folklore and Jewelry
Huda Kilani
Material and Texts taken from Catalogues and/or Scientific Publications:
Ursula Dreibholz
Hefte zur Kulturgeschichte des Jemen, Band 2
Early Quran Fragments from the Great Mosque in Sana´a
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Sana'a Yemen
SCHÄTZE DES AGA KHAN MUSEUM
Prince Karim Aga Khan IV is well-known for owning one of the most illustrious collections of Islamic Art, going to be housed in a newly constructed museum to be opened to the public in 2013. We obtained permission from the custodian of part of the collection temporarily shown in Berlin (Martin-Gropius-Bau) to show some of the objects on our website. You will find the acronym AKTC (Aga Khan Trust for Culture) under every such object. The accompanying texts were taken from the catalogue of the Berlin exhibition with the respective initials for their authors.
Dorothea Duda
Die Illuminierten Handschriften der ÖNB
Islamische Handschriften I
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie
der Wissenschaften, Wien 1983 (Tafeln)
Fuat Sezgin
Wissenschaft und Technik im Islam
Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main 2003