Islamic Arts Biennale: Kaaba’s kiswah goes on public display for the first time in Jeddah
Islamic Arts Biennale marks the public debut of Kaaba’s kiswah in Jeddah, redefines Islamic art to put Saudi Arabia on global art map ...
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Breaking Baz: Hot Sundance Movie ’Brides’ Is About Schoolgirl Friendship, Not Terrorism, Says Director Nadia Fall
It’s called Brides and is about two Muslim schoolgirls who leave their disruptive homes to travel via Turkey to Syria, where they join the Islamic state and offer ... so I know that’s my background, ...
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The 20 best Apple Watch faces you should be using
For whatever reason, Apple took away the ability to show a Chinese, Hebrew, or Islamic calendar date on ... to animate the stars and streamers in the background. Sadly, this one doesn’t offer ...
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Flying city-builder Airborne Empire hits early access today with a new military element
"From the arches and minarets of your sprawling waftopolis, to the scales the soundtrack breezes through, to the dream-like, abstract patterns which cover the opening region in place of an ocean, it's ...
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'Altar tent' discovery puts Islamic art at the heart of medieval Christianity
A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...
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How Early Islamic Science Advanced Medicine
Sancho I, ruler of the kingdom of Léon in the north of modern-day Spain, was overthrown by rebel nobles in A.D. 958. Their motive, even by the turbulent politics of the day, was an unusual one ...
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Lost Works From Ancient Greek "Great Geometer" Discovered Among Hundreds Of Islamic Texts
When it comes to chronicling the past, it seems there are basically two ways discoveries are made: either they’re the result ...
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Should AI Convert to Islam?
Recently, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim made headlines when he urged young IT developers and tech professionals to incorporate Islamic values into artificial intelligence (AI) systems ...
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IM Pei's Museum of Islamic Art was the most significant building of 2008
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 ...
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Japan home to a growing Muslim presence as it embraces change
The figure is based on government statistics, percentages of Muslims in the population by country and membership figures of the Association for Islamic Studies in Japan. Their study showed that ...
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Differences between Sunni and Shi’a Muslims
The reason there has been a split into different branches is due to differences in belief about who was the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad as leader of the Muslim community after his ...