Maria Reva’s novel involves the Ukraine war, matchmaking, nearly extinct gastropods, and a malacologist trying to save them.

How Islamic art history has been constrained by colonialism, war, and Western epistemologies; and how it calls for a fundamental rethinking of the field.

Sara Rehman, the first-ever executive director of Houston's Islamic Arts Society, and calligraphy artist Sana Mirza discuss ...

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 ...

An exhibition bringing together some of the best artists from across the Middle East and South Asia has opened at a Bradford ...

The ceremony featured reflections on sacred knowledge, the role of purification of the heart in learning, and the ...

“For most Islamic art historians ... While Sunni Muslims have long mistrusted representational art—even pictures of animals and buildings—as invitations to idolatry, Shiite Muslims tend ...

But images of Islamic tents from the Western Islamic world ... This later fresco has captured the attention of art historians who have overlooked the sections of older fresco.

Marco Secchi/Getty Images You're reading Al-Monitor City Pulse — Riyadh ... This week I’ll highlight sections of the biennale that bridge Islamic and contemporary art; one of Jeddah’s most popular ...

“Food is a great way to introduce an American audience to Islamic art and by extension to culture ... Black-and-white images appear and are replaced by others, leaving palimpsests behind ...

As readers of the blog may know, Hamline University declined to renew Erica López Prater's instructor contract because she displayed Islamic Art containing images of Mohammed in her World Art ...