Abu Dhabi, Oct.19th,2007 (WAM) -- A prominent Muslim architect called for setting up a centre for Islamic architecture to promote and upholdIslamic cultural and aesthetic principles and identity of ...

Uzbekistan, and particularly the city of Samarkand, houses some of the most famous Islamic architecture in the world and has long been a subject of besotted fascination in Western culture.

The series, "Islamic Tileworks," shows patterns of architecture from buildings in Esfahan, Casablanca, Samarkand and other famous Islamic cities. Since January, many thousands have been sold to ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Goharshad Mosque is one of the most famous mosques in Iran which ... a stone dado and a mosaic faience shell. This Islamic architecture complex which is distinctive in its ...

Hidden in the architecture of some of the world’s most famous buildings is a cultural ... that Western Europeans fighting against the expansion of Islamic states in the Middle East first ...

The exchange between Islam and other Abrahamic faiths extended to architecture. The famous 12th-century Palatine Chapel in Sicily takes some of its architectural style from the Fatimids ...

Islamic architecture was also represented by distinct regional styles that drew a lot of inspiration from the local context. The most famous Islamic buildings in India emerged during the Mughal ...

"Marble is considered a precious material and is used in a lot of famous Islamic architecture in this subcontinent," said Ahammed. "White marble was chosen because the colour white is the symbol ...

They were first described mathematically by the British academic Roger Penrose in the guise of the famous Penrose tiles ... studies have also suggested that quasiperiodic patterns in Islamic ...

Built in Islamic style of architecture, the white domes and minarets ... Nizamuddin Dargah, Delhi One of the world’s most famous Sufi saints, Nizamuddin Auliya rests in this dargah along with ...