The Wadsworth is the oldest public art museum in the United States, home to a trove of European and American paintings. But it also holds one of the world’s best collections of Islamic art.

The exhibition focuses on the lens of wonder, "a concept deeply rooted in the work of 13th-century scholar Zakariyya ...

Islamic art is art made as part of the religion of Islam close IslamIslam is the name of the religion, and its followers are known as Muslims. and forms part of religious life. It can also mean ...

“It’s difficult to imagine anything more sacred to Muslims than the Kiswah that dresses the House of God,” says the Islamic art scholar Julian Raby, who returned as one of the artistic ...

Art critic Alastair Sooke travels to Doha's Museum of Islamic Art, an iconic building designed by the renowned architect I.M. Pei. He meets the museum director to find out about the complexities ...

As a result of the prohibition of such depictions in most Sunni Muslim schools of thought, geometric patterns came to be widely prevalent in Islamic art. But the biennale in Jeddah features ...