Whether a carpet with motifs that seem to flow beyond the fabric’s edges or walls teeming with interlocking patterns whose figure-ground relationships are at times ambiguous, Islamic geometrics ...

A study of medieval Islamic art has shown some of its geometric patterns use principles established centuries later by modern mathematicians. Researchers in the US have found 15th Century examples ...

TEHRAN – The Islamic Azad University, Kerman branch, turned the spotlight on geometric patterns and designs in Islamic art during a two-day seminar held on December 4 and 5. The seminar was attended ...

These Islamic non-periodic tiling patterns also have five-fold symmetry. What is unknown is how these Muslim artisans and mathematicians discovered girih tiles and their alignment.

Using Islamic art as a springboard for modern works can be a fraught exercise. But the question of how artists today respond to this heritage vocabulary is fascinating. And on August 31, the ...