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

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 ...

Borrowing the model of the palimpsest, George’s The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam takes the reader on a vivid tour of the renowned mosque’s history ...

represents a fascinating insight of what could have been the evolution of Early Islamic Art if the Abbasid coup d'état did not interrupted and radically shifted its path in this formative stage ...

“This narghile has an early Qing Dynasty blue-and-white in ... “So often, displays of Islamic art kind of perpetuate this idea of Islam as this monolith,” says Ashley Dimmig, a guest curator ...

Although donated by American art patrons in the early 20th century, some of these works have never been exhibited before, let alone together. “There’s many things going on in Islamic art ...