As a 20-year-old Harvard graduate, the Aga Khan, born Prince Shah Karim Al-Hussaini, became the 49th hereditary Imam of the ...

Artist Adel Yazdi has been turning the long-neglected neighbourhood of Narenjestan's walls into a vivid visual tapestry ...

The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to ...

View of the AlMidhallah exhibition component, the outdoor exhibition spaces, at the Islamic Arts Biennale 2025. Image © Marco Cappelletti At the forefront of this ...

With its symmetrical design of domes and arches, the white-marble mausoleum is a prime example of Indo-Islamic architecture. Inspired by Hollywood duo Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, Dancing House ...

The species, called Synagoga arabesque, was accessed by scuba diving scientists, who were able to collect samples and analyze them with scanning electron microscopy technology. Scientists from Moscow ...

Then there are Middle Eastern-style restaurants that truly shine, and Egyptian-flavored Arabesque in Suntree is one of them. Although it has done takeout for some time, as everyone in the ...

The University of Waterloo School of Architecture is a leader in design education and research. Offering a fully cooperative professional program, Waterloo Architecture is the only Canadian school of ...

Smith was also inspired by examples of Islamic architecture; in particular, the 9th-century Great Mosque of Samarra in Iraq, defined by its ancient minaret encircled by a distinctively bottom ...

Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, by IM Pei, the first "mega-museum in the Gulf". This austere stack of limestone ...