One unexpected result of this intermingling of peoples was an unparalleled assimilation of Islamic knowledge and skill into Christian architecture. The ribbed vaulting of the mosques of Toledo ...

Diana Darke's monumental book argues the world of construction in medieval Europe involved a significant Muslim contribution ...

is also the first Islamic building that adapted the four-courtyard layout of Sassanid palaces to Islamic religious architecture. Its double-shelled ribbed domes represent an architectural innovation ...

Building a new mosque is often a hot-button topic in Germany. Euro-Islam architecture is paving the way to bridging the cultural gap. German mosques are rarely impressive and grand. Islamic houses of ...

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 ...

This is understood as a prohibition of using animal and human forms in texts, textiles and architecture. Islamic calligraphy and illustrated manuscripts have been highly prized for millennia. The ...

Islamic art, especially the arts of Iran and Central Asia, the art and architecture produced under the Mongols, calligraphy and books. Professor Blair teaches about all aspects of Islamic art from the ...

Considered by some as the eighth wonder of the world, the Alhambra Palace is a representation of one of the finest pieces of ...

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 ...