Jeddah’s Islamic Arts Biennale Shows Off a New Saudi Arabia
The lavishly mounted exhibition brings art to the people, especially pilgrims traveling to the faith’s birthplace.
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Islamic Arts Biennale 2025: museum-quality show reflects on the changing face of Islam
“It’s difficult to imagine anything more sacred to Muslims than the Kiswah that dresses the House of God,” says the Islamic art scholar Julian Raby, who returned as one of the artistic ...
Arab Times3d
Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah: A unique showcase of past and present art forms
The Biennale, which runs until May 25 and is titled "And in Between," is the first of its kind in the world, dedicated to celebrating Islamic arts. It offers a unique platform for reflection, renewal, ...
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Syria's new leaders turn to Islamic law in effort to rebuild Assad's police
Focus on Islamic teachings in police training raises concern among some Syrians Police trainers say this is to instil a sense of morality in recruits Bashar al-Assad's security forces had a ...
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How the Islamic Arts Biennale is broadening the definition of traditional art through its contemporary works
Impeccable craftsmanship and numerical attention to detail have long been hallmarks of historical Islamic art, from the ...
Los Angeles Times28d
Islamic State’s brutal ideology still inspires attacks worldwide
The attacker in the deadly New Year’s truck-ramming strike on revelers in New Orleans’ French Quarter had a black Islamic State flag, the FBI says. Law enforcement says it believes the ...
Chicago Tribune29d
What is the Islamic State group, and what attacks has it inspired by offshoots and lone wolves?
WASHINGTON — The FBI says it recovered the stark black banner of the Islamic State extremist group from the truck that an American man from Texas smashed into New Year’s partygoers in New ...
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Japan home to a growing Muslim presence as it embraces change
The figure is based on government statistics, percentages of Muslims in the population by country and membership figures of the Association for Islamic Studies in Japan. Their study showed that ...
The New York Times27d
A Move Toward Christianity Stirs in a Muslim Land
Christian converts in Kosovo, where the vast majority of people are Muslim, hope to revive a pre-Islamic past they see ... Cracking a Vast Art Fraud: In a remote Canadian city, a hardened ...
The New York Times27d
How the Islamic State Radicalizes People Today
By Alissa J. Rubin The Islamic State has lost thousands of fighters to death or prison and suffered the demise of its self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria. But the global reach of the group ...
Newsweek29d
Shamsud-Din Jabbar: Is the Islamic State Terror Threat Growing Again?
The FBI also found an Islamic State flag at the scene of the attack. Jabbar rammed his pickup truck into a crowd of people celebrating the new year in Bourbon Street killing at least 15 and ...
The Conversation28d
New Orleans attacker’s apparent loyalty to Islamic State group highlights persistent threat of lone wolf terrorism
Jabbar, who died in a shoot-out with police, had pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group in online videos posted on Dec. 31, according to the FBI. It represents the first major assault on an ...