The organisers of the Islamic Arts Biennale have ceased trying to define Islamic art in favour of encouraging full expression ...

Islamic art is art made as part of the religion of Islam close IslamIslam is the name of the religion, and its followers are known as Muslims. and forms part of religious life. It can also mean ...

Art critic Alastair Sooke travels to Doha's Museum of Islamic Art, an iconic building designed by the renowned architect I.M. Pei. He meets the museum director to find out about the complexities ...

The exhibition focuses on the lens of wonder, "a concept deeply rooted in the work of 13th-century scholar Zakariyya ...

“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 ...

As a result of the prohibition of such depictions in most Sunni Muslim schools of thought, geometric patterns came to be widely prevalent in Islamic art. But the biennale in Jeddah features ...