The previous articles centered on the origins of Shiite Islam and its political history to examine the Shiite basis for ...

A 16-meter, 17th-century Kevorkian Hyderabad carpet from the Museum of Islamic Art is the star of a new exhibition at the Hong Kong Palace Museum, highlighting the intercultural connections between ...

Also on display are ceramics, metalwork, manuscripts and jade carvings from the three “gunpowder empires”: the Safavid Empire in Iran (1501-1736), the Mughal Empire in India (1526-1857) and ...

Isfahan, one of three cities targeted in American military strikes, is home to a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a mosque that ...

A solemn minaret with Safavid roots Geravand also highlighted a striking historical structure on the grounds—a surviving Safavid-era minaret locally known as the Minaret of Shams. “Historical records ...

[1] An exhibition featuring 90 works of Islamic art opened in Hong Kong earlier this month, featuring carpets, ceramics and manuscripts from the 10th to the 19th centuries. The exhibition comes amid ...

A permanent secretariat dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Buyid dynasty (934–1062) is set to be established in the ...

Iran is predominantly Shia Muslim, making up about 90 percent of the population, while Sunni Muslims and other Muslim sects account for roughly 9 percent. The remaining 1 percent includes roughly ...

Ultimately, this crisis has once again demonstrated that war benefits no one. De-escalation and diplomatic engagement are the ...

American foreign policy in West Asia is a textbook example of adolescent overreach: short attention spans, cyclical memory, a ...

And what about their world? Today we talk to an Iranian about how the nine days of war could change everything in that world—or nothing at all. Arash Azizi was born in 1988, a year after the current ...