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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...