Islamic Architecture

New Islamic Art Film Premieres in Chicago

Daniel Tutt | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Art History, Islamic Art, Islamic Art Documentary, Islamic Art Film, Islamic Architecture, Islamic Art Mirror of the Invisible World, Video, Chicago News
Daniel Tutt

A new documentary film, Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World seeks to present some of the riches of Islamic artistic contributions to an American audience.

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The Dark Side of Beauty: The Mosque As "Terror Cell"

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, East-West Relations, Islam, Mosques, World History, Beauty, Orientalism, Islamic Architecture, Christian-Islamic Relations, Islamophobia, History, Arts News, Middle East, Interfaith, Sacred Architecture, Aesthetics. Architecture, Islamophillia, Arts News
G. Roger Denson

The relationships of cultures are not so very different from the relationships of individuals.

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Part 5: Colonizing the Mosque (Slideshow)

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, East-West Relations, Orientalism, Islam, World History, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamophobia, Unity of Form, Islamic Architecture, Architecture, Christian-Islamic Relations, Middle East, Interfaith, Slidepollajax, Sacred Architecture, Edward Said, Mosques, Arts News, Principles of Form, Islamophillia, Arts News
G. Roger Denson

With mosques functioning as the local centers of Islamic faith and the object of renewed Western suspicion, it is undeniable that mosques also help keep alive the memory of the divide of civilizations that once rent the world irreparably in two.

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Booming Islamic Antiquities Market in the Gulf Leads to Thefts in Old Cairo Mosques

Journalism Boot Camp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Syria, Arab World, Egypt, Doha, Islam, Sotheby's Christie's, Antiquities, Art Theft, Mosque, Islamic Architecture, Sotheby's, Muslim World, London, Art, Persian-Arabian-Gulf, Art Auctions, Cairo, Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar, World News
Journalism Boot Camp

Despite denials that the buying of pieces by Qatar helped fuel a black market, Egyptian officials say Gulf collectors are the reason Islamic heritage sites are being looted.

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Mosques, Moolah, and the Importance of Tradition

Victoria Lautman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Richard Driehaus, Classicism, Driehaus Prize, Mosques, Architecture, Muslim-Tradition, Pritzker Prize, Mies Van Der Rohe, Prince Charles, Saudi Arabia, Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil, Muslim Architecture, Islamic Architecture, Chicago News
Victoria Lautman

El-Wakil is considered one of the most prominent proponents of contemporary Islamic architecture, making him a stimulating choice for the Driehaus Prize, which has thus far gone only to Western architects.

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