(RNS) — Artist Safia Latif doesn’t often discuss the thinking behind her lush, loosely brushed oil paintings. But the day before the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, celebrated this year in early July, ...

Islamicate celestial globes made as early as the eleventh century are found in museums and private collections today. There are also references in classical Greek and Roman literature to carlier ...

During the early medieval Islamicate period (800–1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expressed in works on music theory and philosophy as ...

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This eclectic collection of essays on Islamicate influences — the term is used to distinguish cultural forms associated with Islam from the religion itself — is relevant in the times we’re living in.

Since the end of the Ottoman Empire in 1924, the historical heartlands of the Islamicate world have been under direct or indirect rule of the leading western powers (Britain, France and the USA). The ...

It is not often that a solitary article spawns two international seminars, and two excellent edited volumes. But Mukul Kesavan is exactly the kind of thinker who can set off big intellectual currents ...