Bound and printed on the page, the Quran appears in black and white. But Warris Mahmud sees it in reds, greens and golds. "The Quran is such a beautiful book of verse," said Mahmud, a calligraphy ...

4 art books of 2023: ... Other modern standouts include starchitect Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi, also dating from 2017, and the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, ...

A holy book, as a work of art, the Quran, sacred to some 1.6 billion Muslims around the world. A new exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's Sackler Gallery in Washington, ...

Essaydi will speak at the seventh biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art at the VMFA November 2-4. Back Page Opinion & Blogs. October 24, 2017. ... (Book of Kings), ...

Saudi Arabia has launched a museum that is dedicated exclusively to Islamic art. The House of Islamic Arts, located in Jeddah ...

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 ...

Jay Bonner’s new book on Islamic geometric patterns is as dense and thick (595 pages) as the thorniest of textbooks, but the hundreds of illustrations and the immersion in this topic are simply ...

Doha: The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) is inviting the public to immerse themselves in a rich exploration of culinary heritage through its latest ...