On Thursday Nov. 8, the Muslim Students Association hosted their fall dinner at Wilbur Cross Reading Room. The event featured guest speaker Rasha Ahmed, a University of Connecticut alumni who is now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A painting showing the Prophet Muhammad raising his hands in prayer while standing on the Mountain of Light in Mecca. Siyer-i Nebi ...

In the previous installment of this series, you learned about the different Muslim sects and the interesting ways they mix in the United States. This article will take you through the historical ...

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 ...

Ahead of the FIFA World Cup set to take place in Qatar in November 2022, the museum has been given a makeover. Ahead of the FIFA World Cup set to take place in Qatar this November, the Museum of ...

This ninety-minute film takes audiences on an epic journey across nine countries and over 1,400 years of history. It explores themes such as the Word, Space, Ornament, Color and Water and presents the ...

As the World Cup draws visitors to present-day Doha, the Museum of Islamic Art reopens with an expanded vision and presentation of Islamic history. By David Belcher DOHA, Qatar — As the world’s ...

This week, the Dallas Museum of Art opened its Keir Collection Gallery, and in doing so it’s exhibiting more than the third largest collection of Islamic art in North America: It’s also exhibiting a ...

The painting that appears to be at the center of the controversy (from Rashid al-Din Ṭabib, Jami' al-Tawarikh, in the University of Edinburgh Library) Michigan art history Prof. Christiane Gruber ...

Introduction. Architecture and poetics ; The aims of this book -- Architecture and meaning in the theory of al-Jāḥiẓ. Architecture and meaning : al-Jāḥiẓ's view ; Aesthetic, variety and emotion ; ...

The Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar is just one of the institutions that is expanding its exhibit labels and putting more information online. By David Belcher DOHA, Qatar — An 18th-century turban ...

This single-volume Qur’an from Istanbul was included in a 2004 exhibition of Islamic art at the Frick Art and Historical Center. (image via Wikimedia Commons) The Frick Pittsburgh museum suddenly ...