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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps the principal one is about how Islamic art can be separated from its producers ... a plate depicting life on the Nile from the 8th century, the early decades of the Muslim calendar ...

Again and again his patterns owe debts to Islamic art, examples of which were known ... In gardens our tulips are not the tulips of early Turkish gardens, prototypes for the ones that Morris ...

"Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realising it ... The fresco was partly painted over in the early 15th century with scenes from the lives of the Virgin Mary ...

Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realising it ... The fresco was painted between the late 13 th and early 14 th centuries to represent a canopy placed over the ...

In a barometer of early interest, the press trip itself accommodated ... the Kiswah that dresses the House of God,” says the Islamic art scholar Julian Raby, who returned as one of the artistic ...

"Principles of early Islamic art can be surveyed as a precursor to Western computational art – though produced in different historical and cultural contexts, Islamic art and computational art ...

Photograph by Nicholas Jackson Initially, artistic expression was not fundamental to Islam: Art is not directly mentioned in the Quran or early religious texts. As the faith spread, conquered ...

This April, Christie’s London will present the live auction Art of the Islamic and Indian Words including Rugs and ... Further highlights include early Iranian ceramics from a Private American ...