Dazzling effect: detail from folio from the 9th-century Blue Qur’an - Samar Kassab/Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar “Many people think that Islam is a terrorist religion,” says Sheikha Al-Mayassa ...

In the previous installment of this series, you learned about the different Muslim sects and the interesting ways they mix in the United States. This article will take you through the historical ...

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 ...

When Museum of Fine Arts, Houston hosted the Iranian Film Festival in 2006, patron Sima Ladjevardian posed a question to MFAH's then-director Peter Marzio: "What kind of Iranian art do you have?'" she ...

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) will be the sole North American venue for an exhibition titled, “Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity,” which will open May 14 and run through September 18.

The new exhibit “In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art” is the culmination of four years of work by LACMA’s Islamic art curator, Linda Komaroff. Assembling ...

“Many people think that Islam is a terrorist religion,” says Sheikha Al-Mayassa Al Thani, the sister of Qatar’s ruling emir, “and it’s not.” We are recording an interview for a new BBC television ...