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 ...

Islamic art includes all the artistic traditions in Muslim culture Islamic art is often vibrant and distinctive. Unlike Christian art, Islamic art isn't restricted to religious work, but includes all ...

When you hear the words Islamic art, you may think it's strictly religious art devoted to the Muslim faith. While some of the work was indeed created in service to Islam, to think so narrowly about ...

In the current wave of heightened interest in Islam and the Middle East, the Museum of Modern Art in New York presents Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking. The exhibition opened February 26, ...

In the early 1970s, the game of table tennis led to a thawing in U.S.-Chinese relations. Curators of an Islamic art exhibit at Chicago’s Smart Museum hope art can work the same magic, opening doors to ...

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 of ...

World-renowned art collector Prof. Nasser Khalili not only knows that a picture is worth a thousand words, but that it also has potential to change people’s perspectives. As the owner of more than ...

Ignorance and fear have left us clinging to a bogus narrative – and denied these masterpieces their true place in art history Alastair Sooke has been covering art for the Telegraph since 2003. He has ...

Hundreds of rare Islamic artifacts that a Jerusalem museum pulled from the auction block last fall at the 11th hour are headed back to Israel for good thanks to a deal with a private foundation. Last ...

The most prominent art market casualty of the current conflict in the Middle East so far has been the 20th edition of Art ...

Islamic Art Museum in the Bab Al-Khalq area in the heart of Historic Cairo is considered the largest Islamic art museum in the world; where the museum houses more than 100,000 diverse artifacts of ...