Mughal paintings are a particular style of South Asian painting, generally confined to miniatures either as book illustrations or as…
Chinese influences on Islamic pottery cover a period starting from at least the 8th century CE to the 19th century.…
Zellige (Arabic: الزليج; also zelige or zellij) is mosaic tilework made from individually chiseled geometric tiles set into a plaster…
Yeseria is a technique of carving plaster used by the Spanish Moors like also by the post-Reconsquista's Mudéjar architecture. Plaster…
Mosque lamps of glass, enamelled and often with gilding, survive in considerable numbers from the Islamic art of the Middle…
Mocárabe, Honeycomb work, or Stalactite work (Arabic al-halimat al-'uliya, "the overhang") is an ornamental design used in certain types of…
Interlacing patterns are patterns of lines and shapes that have traditionally dominated Islamic art. They can be broadly divided into…
Arabic calligraphy is the art and design of writing in various languages that use Arabic letters. Arabic writing is characterized…
Islamic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy, based upon the alphabet in the lands sharing a common…
Girih tiles are a set of five tiles that were used in the creation of Islamic geometric patterns using strapwork…
Girih (Persian: گره, "knot") is a decorative Islamic geometric artform used in architecture and handicraft objects, consisting of angled lines…
In Iranian architecture, banna'i (Persian: بنائی, "builder's technique" in Persian) is an architectural decorative art in which glazed tiles are…
An iwan (Persian: ایوان eyvān, Arabic: إيوان Iwan, also spelled ivan, Turkish: eyvan) is a rectangular hall or space, usually…
Islamic influences on Western art refers to the influence of Islamic art, the artistic production in the Islamic world from…