Iranian tiles, especially Isfahan tiles and Tabriz tiles, became some of the most important crafts in Iran and were used in churches, mosques, schools, and other buildings. The art of tile making in ...

Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may cloak a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years. Historians have long assumed that sheer ...

When Peter J. Lu traveled to Uzbekistan, he had no idea of the mathematical journey that he was about to embark on as well. The Harvard graduate student in physics was fascinated by the beautiful and ...

A scientist from the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates has arrived at a new method that may help craftsmen to simulate and produce immeasurable numbers of stunning patterns of ...

There was a particular moment in history when no artistic field was immune to the influence of Islamic design, writes Cath Pound. Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity, currently on show at ...

image: Girih-tile reconstruction of the large-tile girih pattern from an archway of the Darb-i Imam shrine, Isfahan, Iran (1453 C.E.).This image relates to article that appeared in the Feb. 23, 2007, ...

Wooden mihrab from the shrine of Sayyida Ruqayya, Cairo, Egypt (1133): “Made by the order of the wife of the reigning Fatimid caliph, the mihrab is decorated on all sides, suggesting that it was ...