Calligraphy, derived from the Greek words "kallos" (beauty) and "graphein" (to write), is the art of beautiful writing. It has played a significant role in various cultures throughout history, including Islamic culture. Islamic calligraphy, also known as "khatt," holds immense importance in Islamic art and...
Islamic art comprises of cultural and religious art forms that subject to a wide range of geographical influences. The purpose of this paper is to study four different artists to identify their signatures and attributions in two museums. The two museums that I chose is...
Architecture is not just a building, street, or a space. Architecture forms a specific theme for a place and gives it its own personality. These details become part of that space and grow with the people who use it. Architecture is considered one of the...
When you picture Islamic women, the image that immediately comes to mind is a woman cloaked in black, with not one part of her body visible. Even more so, it is hard to imagine this specter as possessing any sort of sexuality. Yet, in Tariq...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest museum in the United States, it is a 2.2 million square feet museum with more than 2 million collections of work. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, also known as the Met, wasn’t originally so enormous, as the...
Islam is one of the major world religions, with over 1.8 billion followers, making it the second-largest religion globally. It is a monotheistic Abrahamic faith based on the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad as recorded in the Quran, the holy book of Islam. The religion...
The spread of Islam in the early centuries of its existence is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that defies easy categorization or explanation. The rapid expansion of Islamic civilization across vast territories and diverse cultures during the 7th and 8th centuries CE has been the...