and integrating architecture through the AlMusalla architectural prize. Most critically, the 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale celebrates the plurality of Islamic arts, in context. Textiles, manuscripts ...

Doha, Qatar: The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) is among the nominees for the Most Significant Building of the 21st Century, by the influential architecture and design magazine Dezeen. The ...

View of the AlMidhallah exhibition component, the outdoor exhibition spaces, at the Islamic Arts Biennale 2025. Image © Marco Cappelletti At the forefront of this ...

The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world's Ismaili Muslim community and a lifelong advocate for Islamic architecture and culture ... He was a lover of art and architecture but also a patron who ...

Emine Fetvaci, a prominent scholar and accomplished teacher whose research areas include the arts of the book in the Islamic world, and Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid art and architecture, has been ...

Impeccable craftsmanship and numerical attention to detail have long been hallmarks of historical Islamic art, from the calligraphy ... lamps and architecture of the region. Often, these aspects ...

It has also been a point of cross-cultural celebration of faith – and it is precisely this quality that the Islamic Arts Biennale ... AlMusalla Prize, an architecture competition launched ...

So as viewers began trooping in on the inaugural day, several encountered the artistic directors: Amin Jaffer, director of The Al Thani Collection; Julian Raby, former lecturer in Islamic art and ...

drawing attention to the architecture’s ability to shape how we perceive and interact with the art around us. White fabrics, stretching and folding into organic forms, offer a blank canvas that allows ...

With its symmetrical design of domes and arches, the white-marble mausoleum is a prime example of Indo-Islamic architecture ... Gothic and curvy Art Nouveau architecture, Sagrada Família is ...

There are superior examples, more specialised or localised versions, but never has there been anything like the Islamic Arts Biennale (IAB), launched ... The winner was an elaborate woven structure by ...

JEDDAH: The National Museum of Oman is proudly participating in the second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale, titled ‘And What's Between,’ hosted at the Western Haj Terminal, King Abdulaziz ...