Islamic Cairo is overwhelming ... and the other is the premises of the Wamda Troupe which has revived the traditional art of shadow puppets and aragoz, a local form of puppetry which features ...

Saladin captures the Holy Cross, 13th-century from Matthew Parris. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images ... in terms of preserving his large empire and safeguarding the Islamic faith ...

Twenty years ago, he gave The Art Newspaper a rare interview on the ... century city wall that runs for a kilometre and a half from Saladin’s great citadel. Crushed up against it is Darb Al ...

What is “Islamic art”? This question has remained open since the term was coined by Western art historians in the 19th century. The debate is alive and well today among scholars who are ...

Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realising it." While it is well known that Islamic textiles were present in late medieval European churches, surviving fragments are ...

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 ...

The festival began in 2014 when four Houstonians with a shared interest in Islamic art organized a small exhibition at a mosque in Spring, Texas. The group, which included an architect ...

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 ...

13, of myelodysplasia at a private residence in Southampton, N.Y. Inspired by ancient Islamic art and jewelry, Greek and Egyptian ... the Classical Period,” “Sultan Saladin,” and “The Tales of Genji,” ...

and work of Islamic art from the 9th or 10th century, brought to Italy in the 11th. But someone who is convinced she has the grail in her hometown is Margarita Torres Sevilla, professor of ...