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What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shia Islam?
According to Muslim tradition, Muhammad’s prophetic status was well-established among his followers before his death. However ...
Dancing in Damascus: Syrians cling to culture under Islamists' rule
DAMASCUS - On a wintry night in Damascus, hundreds of people packed into a courtyard in the Old City, dancing and singing ...
What the Al Thani Collection of art tells us about world trade
Amin Jaffer, one of the artistic directors of the Islamic Arts Biennale, on the prestigious Al Thani Collection, how there is no one canon of Islamic art and his Indian roots ...
William Morris, Islamic art and a reason to fall in love with the ‘enamelled lawn’ again
The Arts and Crafts designer incorporated patterns from Islamic art into carpets, textiles and wallpaper, as an exhibition ...
The militia commander
The advancing tide of Islamist extremism has prompted the rise of pro-government militias. The result has been a vicious ...
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OMA uses "abstract architectural language" for scenography of Islamic Arts Biennale
As part of OMA's exhibition design for the second Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the architecture studio formed walls and columns from translucent textiles to move away from ...