Ahead of the FIFA World Cup set to take place in Qatar this November, the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), located on an artificial island in the country’s capital Doha, has been given a makeover.

Similarly, Islamic art studies 1,400 years of creativity, images, objects and spaces of historical and contemporary communities of North Africa, the Middle East, Europe, South Asia and beyond.

If we go back to the history of Islamic art, it's influenced by Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Persian art and designs, and it was about taking the idea of these ornamental images and creating a ...

Islamic art historians such as my colleagues and me, both Muslim and non-Muslim, study and teach these images regularly. They form part of the standard survey of Islamic art, which includes ...

“So much of Islamic art is related to the sourcing, preparation, serving and consumption of food,” notes Linda Komaroff, curator of “Dining with the Sultan,” a new exhibition at the Los ...

Islamic art has therefore tended to be abstract or decorative. Shia Islamic tradition is far less strict on this ban. Reproductions of images of the Prophet, mainly produced in the 7th Century in ...

A colleague from another university suggested López Prater should reach out to Christiane Gruber, a leading expert on Islamic art, who had used the images in her own classes. López Prater had ...