The organisers of the Islamic Arts Biennale have ceased trying to define Islamic art in favour of encouraging full expression ...
In Islamic art, infinitely repeating patterns represent the unchanging ... A short student activity that introduces why patterns are used in Islamic books, textiles and architecture and how to use a ...
View of the AlMidhallah exhibition component, the outdoor exhibition spaces, at the Islamic Arts Biennale 2025. Image © Marco Cappelletti At the forefront of this ...
Impeccable craftsmanship and numerical attention to detail have long been hallmarks of historical Islamic art, from the ...
Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, by IM Pei, the first "mega-museum in the Gulf". This austere stack of limestone ...
Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art Professor Bloom teaches courses on the history of Islamic art and architecture. He also offers undergraduate seminars on such ...
Emine Fetvaci, a prominent scholar and accomplished teacher whose research areas include the arts of the book in the Islamic world, and Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid art and architecture, has been ...