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 ...

Spanning six continents and a thousand years of history, an exhibition of Islamic art at the Phoenix Art Museum opens more than just a window on Muslim cultures. “Wondrous Worlds: Art & Islam in Time ...

But my aim is not to invoke a revisionist history as catharsis, nor to offer the consoling illusion that history writing can resist genocide or erasure-though in moments of despair, such a belief is ...

What is culture? In today’s globalized world, we are familiar with seeing various cultural objects and ornamentation outside of their original location or context. If culture is not fixed and bound to ...

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 ; ...

Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art Professor Bloom teaches courses on the history of Islamic art and architecture. He also offers undergraduate seminars on such ...

The Tongue of the Ocean is a geographical feature in the Bahamas, a deep-water basin situated between the islands of Andros and New Providence. It was here in 1972 that Turkish-American artist Bilgé ...

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 ...

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 ...

An exhibition of impressive Islamic art in Seoul features intricate early manuscripts of the Quran to lavish royal carpets, ceramics and delicate jade crafts. The National Museum of Korea on Nov. 22 ...

It has been almost a year since the only Islamic art gallery of a major museum in Chicago, Gallery 50 of the Art Institute, was closed. While the Art Institute is frequently in the news — the ...