A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious Islamic tents were used to conceal altars in medieval European churches ...

The situation is not helped by making accusations against a faculty member who is simply trying to share and teach the history of Islamic art with students.

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the ...

What Is Medieval Islamic Medicine? Medicine was an important part of medieval Islamic life; both rich and poor people were interested in health and diseases.

Mathematicians find that geometric patterns in medieval Islamic tiles even more complicated that previously thought, with one configuration not discovered in West until 1970s.

Intricate decorative tilework found in medieval architecture across the Islamic world appears to exhibit advanced decagonal quasicrystal geometry -- a concept discovered by Western mathematicians ...

Islamic art historians and archaeologists are calling into question a Swedish medieval textile expert’s claim that the word “Allah” has been found on a 10th century Viking funeral garment ...

Intricate decorative tilework found in medieval architecture across the Islamic world appears to exhibit advanced decagonal quasicrystal geometry -- a concept discovered by Western mathematicians ...

A study of medieval Islamic art has shown some of its geometric patterns use principles established centuries later by modern mathematicians. Researchers in the US have found 15th Century examples ...

The craft workshops of Cairo tell a story going back to the glory days of medieval Islamic art — a side to the capital easy to overlook with the much-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum opening on the ...

What this medieval wine jug can tell us about Islam The boundaries of the religion are wider than is often thought ...