These were some of the questions raised by the team at the Diriyah Biennale Foundation as we embarked on putting together the world’s first Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah in 2023. The rationale ...

Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World in a virtual lecture hosted by the McMullen on Tuesday. The exhibit, open from Feb. 9 to June 1, features 20 lenders and is centered around ...

For Saudi Arabia, where public displays of art were rare even a decade ago, it is a chance to catch up with those other cultural centers of the Islamic world, with a show that draws extra ...

Under a vast canopy of tents in the Saudi city of Jeddah, religious artefacts are on display alongside contemporary art ...

The Biennale, which runs until May 25 and is titled "And in Between," is the first of its kind in the world, dedicated to celebrating Islamic arts. It offers a unique platform for reflection, renewal, ...

Qatar Museums (QM) is showcasing eight artifacts from its Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) collection at the ... the rich artistic heritage of the Islamic world. QM noted it is contributing to this ...

Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realising it ... But images of Islamic tents from the Western Islamic world, such as Spain, are extremely rare and this might ...

Image by Marco Cappelletti, courtesy of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation. The Islamic Arts Biennale is the world's first, and until now only, biennial exhibition dedicated to the arts of Islamic ...

Located in modern-day Turkey, the 13th-century Divrigi Hospital was built alongside a mosque, and the two are a UNESCO World Heritage ... from Islam’s golden age. THE ART OF MEDICINE Medieval ...

“It’s not like anything else in Senegal or elsewhere in the Muslim world.” As part of the celebrations, worshippers made a pilgrimage to the sacred grotto where Seydina Limamou Laye first ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 5 (Bernama) -- Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who is on a two-day official visit to Malaysia, spent about 30 minutes this afternoon exploring the Islamic arts and exhibits ...

solidifying its position as the central global platform for Islamic arts. Loans from leading institutions across the world, including the Musée du Louvre (Paris), the Victoria and Albert Museum ...