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 ...

Introduction to Art of the Islamic Worlds, two galleries containing Early and Later Iranian Art from the Hossein Afshar Collection, Sacred and Secular Arts of the Book, Blue and White between ...

“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 ...

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 ...

A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017). “Ottoman Author Portraits in the Early-Modern Period,” in Emotions and Subjectivity in the Early-Modern Islamic World, ed. Kishwar ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...

(RNS) — In early October, Erika López Prater, a professor at Hamline University in Minnesota, showed her online Islamic art history class an image of the Prophet Muhammad. A Muslim student in ...

Dating back to the early Islamic period, these designs were developed using a set of mathematical principles. Islamic art was characterized by utilizing geometric patterns in a distinct manner owing ...

The controversy began in October when López Prater showed a 14th-century painting depicting the Prophet Muhammad to her students as part of a lesson on Islamic art. She had warned them beforehand ...