Mosques were built for growing Muslim communities and religious texts about Islamic belief and practice were written and decorated. Works that functioned in or ...

The term Islamic art not only describes the art created specifically in the service of the Muslim faith (for example, a mosque and its furnishings) but also ...

Religious Islamic art has been typically characterized by the absence of figures and extensive use of calligraphic, geometric and abstract floral patterns.

Calligraphy is a very important art form in the Islamic world. The Qur'an, written in elegant scripts, represents Allah's (or God's) divine word, which Muhammad ...