In the year 749 CE, a devastating earthquake hit the Levant, crippling the early Islamic city of Jerash. While the earthquake may have caused widespread destruction to buildings in the Northwest ...

The traditional wood screens made in ornately geometric patterns for Islamic palaces and mosques are given the modern art treatment. Anila Quayyum Agha's "Charred Gold," is a mashrabiya made of ...

Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, recently dismissed Erika López Prater, an adjunct faculty member, for showing two historical Islamic paintings of the Prophet Muhammad in her global survey ...

NEW YORK -- New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has unveiled its new wing of Islamic works in a major effort to increase Americans' understanding of Islamic culture. The new wing, which opened on ...

Visitors of the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo’s Babul Khalq area can enjoy three temporary exhibitions throughout January as the museum celebrates its 119th anniversary. The three exhibitions were ...

An emerald inscribed for a Mughal emperor. A Safavid-period knotted wool carpet. An Ottoman-era curtain, intricately embroidered with metal threads, which was part of the covering of the Kaaba, the ...

Dubai's Filmfare night: All the top stars attending In pictures: Strong earthquake strikes Pakistan Islamabad: The centuries-old Islamic art of calligraphy is often found on the walls of mosques and ...

Archaeologists working on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, in present-day Israel, have unearthed a set of colorful floor mosaics that show the site was a prosperous region settled by early ...

Muslim prayers are due to be held on Friday at the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul for the first time since Turkish President Tayyip Ergodan decreed earlier this month that the heritage site would be turned ...