Islamic art is a part of Islamic culture and encompasses the visual arts produced since the 7th century CE by people who lived within territories … See more

While not condemned in the Quran, making images of human beings and animals is frowned upon in many Islamic cultures and … See more

No Islamic artistic product has become better known outside the Islamic world than the pile carpet, more commonly referred to as the … See more

Islamic art has very notable achievements in ceramics, both in pottery and tiles for walls, which in the absence of wall-paintings were taken … See more

Although the concept of "Islamic art" has been put into question by some modern art historians as a construct of Western cultural views, the … See more

Calligraphic design is omnipresent in Islamic art, where, as in Europe in the Middle Ages, religious exhortations, including Qur'anic verses, may be included in secular objects, … See more

For most of the Middle Ages Islamic glass was the most sophisticated in Eurasia, exported to both Europe and China. Islam took over much of the traditional glass-producing territory of See more