The Arts and Crafts designer incorporated patterns from Islamic art into carpets, textiles and wallpaper, as an exhibition ...
Greeted by Islamic poetry pamphlets, attendees stepped into the Union Building’s Quadrangle room, its perimeter lined with ...
The exhibition focuses on the lens of wonder, "a concept deeply rooted in the work of 13th-century scholar Zakariyya ...
Under a vast canopy of tents in the Saudi city of Jeddah, religious artefacts are on display alongside contemporary art ...
Doha: The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), in collaboration with Dreama Orphan Care Center, recently wrapped up its inspiring ...
The story of Islam’s entry into India is complex and unfolds over seven centuries. But what were the different routes through ...
Under a vast canopy of tents in the Saudi city of Jeddah, religious artifacts are on display alongside contemporary art pieces, part of the kingdom’s bid to transform its ultraconservative image. The ...
“It’s difficult to imagine anything more sacred to Muslims than the Kiswah that dresses the House of God,” says the Islamic art scholar Julian Raby, who returned as one of the artistic ...
redefines Islamic art to put Saudi Arabia on global art map Inside the Islamic Arts Biennale: A Rare Look at the Kaaba’s Drapes.(Image by X/WACommunity) Known as the Kiswah, it is made of black ...
As a result of the prohibition of such depictions in most Sunni Muslim schools of thought, geometric patterns came to be widely prevalent in Islamic art. But the biennale in Jeddah features ...