Editing Oil lamp (section)

===Early Islamic===
[[Image:Beja51.jpg|thumb|Early Islamic oil lamps (11th century), found in Southern Portugal]]

There is a transition period from Byzantine to Islamic lamps. The decoration on lamps of this transition period changed from crosses, animals, human likenesses, birds, or fish to plain linear, geometric, and raised-dot patterns.

The early Islamic lamps continued the traditions of Byzantine lamps. Decorations were initially a stylized form of a bird, grain, tree, plant, or flower. Later, they became entirely geometric or linear with raised dots.

An early description of the [[kerosene lamp]] comes from 9th-century [[Baghdad]] by [[Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi|al-Razi]] (Rhazes). He referred to it as the {{langx|ar-Latn|naffatah}} in his {{lang|ar-Latn|Kitab al-Asrar}} ('Book of Secrets').<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Zayn|last=Bilkadi|others=Illustrated by Bob Lapsley|title=The Oil Weapons|url=https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199501/the.oil.weapons.htm|magazine=[[Saudi Aramco World]]|date=January 1995|volume=46|number=1|pages=20–27}}</ref>

In the transition period, some lamps had Arabic writing. Writing later disappears until the [[Mamluk]] period (13th to 15th century AD).