What should I know about Islamic art?

Sure, since you asked so nicely: In the Islamic world paintings and statues were never popular or prevalent for religious reasons. As a result Muslims often searched for other art forms. For example, in my homeland Morocco we use Architecture. read more

Islamic Art. Islamic art encompasses the visual arts produced from the 7th century onward by people who lived within the territory that was inhabited by or ruled by culturally Islamic populations. It is thus a very difficult art to define because it covers many lands and various peoples over some 1,400 years; it is not art specifically of a religion, or of a time, or of a place, or of a single medium like painting. read more

The study of the arts of the Islamic world has also lagged behind other fields in art history. There are several reasons for this. First, many scholars are not familiar with Arabic or Farsi—the dominant language in Iran. read more

Museum of Islamic Art, offshore museum in Doha, Qatar, located on the southern end of Doha Bay.It is noted for its vast collection of Islamic art spanning 1,300 years. The museum, which opened in 2008, was designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese American architect I.M. Pei, with an interior designed by Jean-Michel Wilmotte. read more