All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. First of all, the mosques are not ...

Ithra is the King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture in Dhahran, and this book, The Art of Orientation, has the lavish quality that can be produced by Saudi money, while the objects illustrated are ...

Bernard O’Kane, a professor of Islamic art and architecture at American University in Cairo, has a message and a nudge for travelers standing outside a mosque, wondering whether they should enter: Go ...

The mosque features a rectangular plan, a single minaret and decorative elements from the Ottoman westernization period, ...