Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairperson of the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq), inaugurated the second edition of the "Chapters of Islamic Art" exhibition, themed ...

The various copies of the Quran on view represent an extraordinary variety of calligraphic styles and texts, and reaffirm how the holy book has time and again served as an inspiration for art.

Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Ali on Tuesday inaugurated Pakistan's first-ever exhibition on artistic book-binding of rare manuscripts. The exhibition titled 'Tajdeed-e-Naqoosh' ...

So Giedroyc did what anyone else would have done — he went to look for money in America. CIA officers offered him initially $10,000 a year to support his magazine Kultura. It was the start of a near ...

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 ...

Dr. Haroon Rashid Tabassum’s auctorial skillsBy Syed Afsar Sajid Islami Fauj Day Pahlay Salaar (SAW )         Dr. HR TabassumEhtisham-e-Kutub ...

This Hari Raya, artists and illustrators are turning humble sampul raya packets into pocket-sized arty collectibles ...

Nicholas Shrimpton on Asian art in London.

The proverbial practice of char dakhal has now extended to politics in the form of chandabaji (money extortion) as a metaphor ...

Cutlets, kebabs, lentil fritters and more rounded out the meal, while dollops of pungent garlic chutney and a cooling chutney ...

Muslims typically stream into mosques for congregational prayers and dedicate more time for religious contemplation and the reading of the Quran, the Muslim holy book. Charity is a hallmark ... has ...

Exhibitions of Indian, Iranian or “Islamic” art often suffer from a lack of time ... and Shah Jahan—and the “House of Books” they presided over, which she describes as resembling a ...