Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A painting showing the Prophet Muhammad raising his hands in prayer while standing on the Mountain of Light in Mecca. Siyer-i Nebi ...

DEARBORN, Mich. (WXYZ) — “I have 42 domes and half domes I have executed,” said artist Harout Bastajian, including the dome in the largest mosque on the North ...

"In a rich ethnographic narrative, cultural anthropologist Kenneth George introduces one of the leading figures in the world of Asian art, Indonesian painter Abdul Djalil Pirous, and his pioneering ...

"A Banquet Scene with Hormuz" (c. 1485–95), folio from a dispersed manuscript of the Shahnama of Firdawsi, Iran, Shiraz (© Museum Associates/LACMA) LOS ANGELES — Food has played a central role in ...

BERKELEY — Given her family history, Salma Arastu may be one of the last people you’d expect to be helping to modernize Islamic calligraphy. Her Hindu parents fled their home in Pakistan, resettling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nadia Alkhun is the owner of NAdiaNA art gallery in Milwaukee. Her upcoming exhibit, "Islamic-Inspired," will be at the gallery ...

It has been almost a year since the only Islamic art gallery of a major museum in Chicago, Gallery 50 of the Art Institute, was closed. While the Art Institute is frequently in the news — the ...

There's plenty of art to feast your eyes on in these four very different coffee table books. Presented in reverse chronological order, we move back in time from Art is Art — a fabulous collection of ...

As Arab American Heritage Month is celebrated, one Northern California artist is keeping the centuries-old tradition of Islamic calligraphy alive, one carefully measured stroke at a time. Sehar ...