is also the first Islamic building that adapted the four-courtyard layout of Sassanid palaces to Islamic religious architecture. Its double-shelled ribbed domes represent an architectural innovation ...

The Aga Khan IV, a spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim community and a prominent champion in architecture and cultural preservation, died yesterday in Portugal at the age of 88. As a 20-year ...

“It’s this incredible synthesis that really defines the early modern world, which is a story about contact,” says Kishwar Rizvi, a professor of Islamic art and architecture at Yale University.

Vast monuments dating back to that period: Koutoubia Mosque, with the matchless minaret of 77 metres, an essential monument of Muslim architecture, is one of the important landmarks of the urban ...

The Alhambra palace-fortress complex was built in the mid-13th century by the Nasrid rulers of Spain and is considered the pinnacle of Islamic architecture on the Iberian peninsula. The neo-Arabic ...

Built in 1985 on a 2,400-square-meter site, Al-Rahma Mosque, also known as the Floating Mosque or Fatima Al Zahra Mosque, is ...

Stationed within the exterior grounds of the second Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah is a modular structure that shoots up ...

Building a new mosque is often a hot-button topic in Germany. Euro-Islam architecture is paving the way to bridging the cultural gap. German mosques are rarely impressive and grand. Islamic houses of ...