“So much of Islamic art is related to the sourcing, preparation, serving and consumption of food,” notes Linda Komaroff, curator of “Dining with the Sultan,” a new exhibition at the Los ...

He also became interested in traditional Islamic design and the arabesque and geometrical decoration familiar from Islamic art, with the ... provided imaginative images of Middle Eastern and ...

“For most Islamic art historians ... While Sunni Muslims have long mistrusted representational art—even pictures of animals and buildings—as invitations to idolatry, Shiite Muslims tend ...