Since 'culture'has become an essential category in trying to explain the post-1989 world, a
new wave of essentialist thinking has emerged in the social sciences, including media …

It is important to understand Islam from acultural point of view because the basis of much of
the current turmoil within Muslim countries and conflict with their neighbours can be …

In Umayyad art the conflict between east and west, between the millennial traditions of the
ancient Orient and those of Mediterranean classicism, was slow to announce itself. The …

There is strong demand for current, accurate, and objective information about Islamic
societies and Muslims around the world. This is the first survey for a general audience of key …

One important difference between Islamic and Western aesthetics is that, in the former, there
has been little if any critical discourse on art and beauty until very recently. Yet, from the …

The conspicuous presence of what can be called “pop Islam” or “Islamic chic” in the last two
or three decades has been a further blow to the already discredited modernist and liberalist …

This article will try to outline how and why" Islamic art" was replaced by Western art between
the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, then rediscovered in …

Over the last fifty years the Arab world has witnessed two seemingly contradictory trends:
governments have failed to unite the region politically but at the same time a vibrant popular …

This is a book published by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
in 1998 about Civilization, Cultural History, Economics, Ethics, Human Rights, Islam, Islamic …

The celebrated Islamic galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York reopened in
2011 as “Galleries for the Art of Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South …