| E. | Bibliography: | |||
| a. | General: | ||
| 1. | Hallet, Jessica, | |
| Trade and Innovation: The Rise of a Pottery Industry in Abbasid Basra. | ||
| Unpublished D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 1999 | ||
| 2. | Caiger-Smith, Alan, | |
| Lustre Pottery: Technique, tradition and innovation in Islam and the Western World. | ||
| (London, 1985), reprinted (New York, 1991): chapters 1 & 2 | ||
| 3. | Ettinghausen, Richard, | |
| Interaction and Integration in Islamic Art, | ||
| in Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilisation, ed. Gustave E. von Grunebaum (Chicago, 1955) pp.107-131 | ||
| 4. | Schnyder, Rudolf, | |
| Tulunidische Lüsterfayence, | ||
| Ars Orientalis 5 (1963) pp.49-78 | ||
| 5. | Tamari, Vera, | |
| Abbasid blue on white ware, | ||
| Oxford Studies in Islamic Art 10 (1995) pp.117-145 | ||
| b. | On relations with Chinese pottery: | ||
| 6. | Crowe, Yolande, | |||||||||
| Early Islamic Pottery and China, | ||||||||||
| Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society 41 (1975-7) pp.263-75 | ||||||||||
| 7. | Pottery and Metalwork in Tang China: their chronology and external relations. A Colloquy held 29 June to 2 July 1970. | |||||||||
| Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia, no.1 (London, 1970) | ||||||||||
| which contains: | ||||||||||
| Bivar, A.D. H., | ||||||||||
| Trade between China and the Near East in the Sasanian and early Muslim periods, pp.1-11 | ||||||||||
| Fehérvári, Géza, | ||||||||||
| Near Eastern Wares under Chinese Influence, pp.27-34 | ||||||||||
| 8. | Medley, Margaret, | |||||||||
| Chinese Ceramics and Islamic Design, | ||||||||||
| The Westward Influence of the Chinese Arts, from the C14th to the C18th. A Colloquy held 26 to 29 June 1972. | ||||||||||
| Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia, no.3 (London, 1972), pp.1-10 | ||||||||||
| 9. | Pelliot, Paul, | |||||||||
| Des artisans chinois a la Capitale abbaside en 751-762, | ||||||||||
| Toung Pao 26 (1929) pp.110-112 | ||||||||||
| Shelfmark: Bodstack: Per.Or.d.1, vol.1 (1890) ff. | ||||||||||
| c. | History: | ||
| 10. | The Cambridge History of Islam, vol.I: The Central Islamic Lands, | |||||||
| edd. P.M. Holt, A.K.S. Lambton and B. Lewis (Cambridge, 1970): | ||||||||
| Part 1: The Rise and Domination of the Arabs | ||||||||
| chapter 3: The Patriarchal and Umayyad Caliphates, by L. Veccia Vaglieri, pp.57-103 | ||||||||
| chapter 4: The Abbasid Caliphate, by D. Sourdel, pp.104-140 | ||||||||
| Part 2: The Coming of the Steppe Peoples | ||||||||
| chapter 1: The Disintegration of the Caliphate in the East, by B. Spuler, pp.143-174 | ||||||||