Journey across AlUla as it celebrates Islamic art—a now instantly-recognized artistic tradition that can be traced all the way back to it's Arabian roots. In northwest Saudi Arabia, the artistic ...
A museum show features glassware, utensils, paintings, cookbooks and more in its examination of a robust and wide-ranging culinary history.
Most of those who brought Islamic stories and tales into Southeast Asia were sailors ... The act of writing was an art in itself; often those who composed the texts and those who copied them were ...
Art critic Alastair Sooke travels to Doha's Museum of Islamic Art, an iconic building designed by the renowned architect I.M. Pei. He meets the museum director to find out about the complexities ...
By Holland Cotter Lisa Schiff acknowledges stealing millions from major collectors who trusted her to buy them fashionable art. By Sarah Maslin Nir His Brutalist buildings, praised during the ...
The Islamic Republic of Iran is host to one of the largest and most protracted refugee situations in the world, having provided asylum to refugees for over forty years. 800,000 refugees currently live ...
The other is the Islamic state. From the time the Prophet Muhammad and his followers withdrew from Mecca to form their own political community until just after World War I—almost exactly ...
After the U.S. fight against Islamic State wound down, the Pentagon came up with a recipe for keeping watch over the Middle East while using the bulk of its forces to deal with the greater threats ...
Image Credit: Supplied This November, the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) will present Splendours of the Atlas: A Voyage Through Morocco’s Heritage, a major exhibition that takes visitors on a ...
An Islamic or halal mortgage doesn’t charge interest, allowing Muslims and others a Sharia-compliant way of raising finance to buy a property. While often referred to as Islamic mortgages ...
Islamic art is art made as part of the religion of Islam close IslamIslam is the name of the religion, and its followers are known as Muslims. and forms part of religious life. It can also mean ...