The Quran was divided into 30 para or Juz at the time of its compilation. The main purpose of dividing the Surahs of Quran in Juz or Para is to make it easy for people to memorize and read the Quran ...

The Walthamstow exhibition corrects this superficial view. Again and again his patterns owe debts to Islamic art, examples of which were known, even owned, by Morris himself. The exhibition and ...

Greeted by Islamic poetry pamphlets, attendees stepped into the Union Building’s Quadrangle room, its perimeter lined with tables displaying Islamic art on Saturday. About 15 artists filled the room ...

Under a vast canopy of tents in the Saudi city of Jeddah, religious artefacts are on display alongside contemporary art pieces, part of the kingdom's bid to transform its ultraconservative image. The ...

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 ...

The McMullen Museum of Art has unveiled an extraordinary exhibition—Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World—which bridges centuries of Islamic intellectual achievement ...

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To mark the launch of a groundbreaking new exhibition, William Morris and Art from the Islamic World at the William Morris Gallery, London, Max Donnelly (Curator of Furniture, V&A) will chair a ...

The V&A’s Max Donnelly joins Rowan Bain and Qaisra M. Khan, co-curators of this pioneering new exhibition at the William Morris Gallery, to discuss how art from the Islamic World influenced Arts & ...

Doha, Qatar: The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) is among the nominees for the Most Significant Building of the 21st Century, by the influential architecture and design magazine Dezeen. The ...

A prison riot in Tajikistan resulted in the deaths of five Islamic State-linked prisoners after they attacked guards with knives At least five prisoners who supported Islamic State were killed ...

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