Journey across AlUla as it celebrates Islamic art—a now instantly-recognized artistic tradition that can be traced all the way back to it's Arabian roots. In northwest Saudi Arabia, the artistic ...

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 ...

Today there are over 1 billion Muslims in the world, making this religion the second-largest in the world after Christianity.

A museum show features glassware, utensils, paintings, cookbooks and more in its examination of a robust and wide-ranging culinary history.

The figural tradition of Buddhist art spread through Central and East Asia and also to Southeast Asia, taking on local and regional characteristics ... in China from about the 13th century CE onward.

Incense burner. East Iranian world, 12th–13th century. Bronze; cast in openwork, inlaid with turquoise faience and glass eye. The al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait, LNS 1218 ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran is host to one of the largest and most protracted refugee situations in the world, having provided asylum to refugees for over forty years. 800,000 refugees currently live ...

Image Credit: Supplied This November, the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) will present Splendours of the Atlas: A Voyage Through Morocco’s Heritage, a major exhibition that takes visitors on a ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A U.S. Army soldier was sentenced to 14 years in prison for attempting to help the Islamic State conduct a deadly ambush of U.S. troops, the Department of Justice ...

An Islamic or halal mortgage doesn’t charge interest, allowing Muslims and others a Sharia-compliant way of raising finance to buy a property. While often referred to as Islamic mortgages ...

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 ...