How Islamic art history has been constrained by colonialism, war, and Western epistemologies; and how it calls for a fundamental rethinking of the field.

Sara Rehman, the first-ever executive director of Houston's Islamic Arts Society, and calligraphy artist Sana Mirza discuss ...

More widely, Islamic tradition has discouraged the figurative depiction of living creatures, especially human beings. Islamic art has therefore tended to be abstract or decorative. Shia Islamic ...

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Britain’s solicitor general sued Tommy Robinson over remarks in online interviews and the film ‘Silenced,’ which was seen millions of times. Tommy Robinson, the British anti-Islam activist ...

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Some moon-faced horsemen adorning the ceramics have a decidedly Chinese cast, a legacy of Buddhist art that early travelers imported into Iran. “We may think of the Islamic world as isolated ...

More than 500 early Islamic objects are displayed across the 70,000 ... Yet, as Assistant Minister of Culture Rakan Altouq admitted during his opening speech, ‘Islamic art has been at risk of ...

My research focuses on the art and architecture of the Islamic world, in particular Spain, north Africa and the medieval Mediterranean. I published a book on the long history of the Alhambra palace ...

Hauser & Wirth, never one to play it small, reported confident early sales—including a $1. ... curators and institutions to the story of art in this moment.” Among the most ambitious ...