Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji, an Iranian physics student and amateur photographer, has captured the sacred beauty of Iran’s many mosques in a breathtaking new way. Holy places around the world have been ...

Due to the underlying principles, IGPs can present an abundant source of possible topologies and geometries that can be explored in the preliminary design development with computer science and ...

Looking at mosques, madrasas, palaces and tombs from the 8th-19th centuries, Eric Broug analyzes and explains Islamic geometric designs in their historical and physical context. Chapters cover the ...

A scientist from the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates has arrived at a new method that may help craftsmen to simulate and produce immeasurable numbers of stunning patterns of ...

Jay Bonner’s new book on Islamic geometric patterns is as dense and thick (595 pages) as the thorniest of textbooks, but the hundreds of illustrations and the immersion in this topic are simply ...

Historic buildings in the Islamic world are often covered with breathtakingly intricate geometric designs. Both artists and mathematicians have long puzzled over them, wondering how the patterns were ...

There’s a building boom underway in the Middle East, and many of the sparkling high-rises and shiny new mosques are adorned with intricate patterns and geometric designs from traditional Islamic art.

With the participation of nearly 80 people, the Mosque Visit Programme was organised by the Sheikh Abdullah bin Zaid Al ...