Islamic art historians ask their students to compare these two paintings while encouraging them to slow down, look carefully, train their eyes to detect pictorial elements, and infer meaning.

The Minaret (Edinburg University Press, 2013); Arts of the City Victorious: Islamic Art and Architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt (Yale University Press, 2007).; Paper Before Print: The ...

Saudi Arabia was the point of origin, from which Islam, and by extension, Islamic Arts traversed the world. Yet we faced a complex task in determining what would constitute Islamic art and how to ...

Negar Rokhgar. This course addresses the history and methodology of Islamic art and architecture from approximately 600 to 1800. The chronology will be examined through the themes that distinguish ...

The Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba in Spain was constructed in 785 A.D. as a place for Islamic worship under the Islamic Emirate of Córdoba. In 1236, it was converted into a cathedral and is still used ...

Eric Broug's richly illustrated history, Islamic Architecture, spans 1,400 years and the entire globe. Organized into six geographic regions, it offers graphic proof of Islam's "immense global ...

Dr Anderson provided expertise on medieval Islamic history, art, architecture, archaeology and civilisation to Ubisoft’s in-house history team, and contributed to a new educational feature ...

The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra), in partnership with the Abdullatif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture, will host the second edition of the Islamic Art Conference on November ...

This year, the institution’s centennial, the honor will go to Vidya Dehejia, the Barbara Stoler Miller Professor Emerita of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University, and Gülru Necipoğlu, the ...