Art At the Smithsonian, a showcase of Persian art and textiles that steal the spotlight from carpets ‘Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles From the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha’ features ...

Zahiru’d-din Muhammad Babur (1483-1530), the founder of South Asia’s Mughal dynasty, believed that wooing allies was as important as fighting battles when it came to building an empire.

Equally, Islamic art is the imaginative expression of a diverse civilization that flourished for 13 centuries over vast geographical areas in Asia, Africa and Europe.

Against this backdrop, the Islamic art market is volatile, with more and more collectors worldwide, private and institutional, competing especially for high-end items. Doha’s Museum of Islamic ...

As the Islamic Empire spread across the Middle East and North Africa, and into Spain, the incoming culture began to make inroads on local lifestyles.

Cairo's Museum of Islamic Art reopened this month after being closed since a 2014 car bombing. Egypt's antiquities minister called the museum's revival a victory over terrorism.

The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam by Alain George (2021) is published by Gingko and is available in bookstores and online. We hope you enjoyed this article!

Bibliography for Islam: Empire of Faith. Blair,S., and J. Bloom. 1994. The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250-1800. Pelican History of Art. London and New Haven ...

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 ...

In “Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles From the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (comprising the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M ...