Royal Feast in a Garden, recto of left folio from the double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020), 1444 https://t.co/iggsGs6Gpd

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Yeshap is a monster from Chechen/Ingush pre-Islamic pagan mythology
A giant creature with nine eyes, nine arms and nine legs, covered in hair and lice
At the end of the earth there is the entrance to Underworld, the land of El, the entrance is guarded by a Yeshap

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For the first time after a 15-year ban, Sheikh Raed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement in 1948-occupied Palestine, enters Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.

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5/16 They trained with sharp swords instead of blunt weapons. They learned Islamic sciences and civics so they could wield authority. Through grueling work, Baibars rose to become among the Sultan's most trusted men, and earned command of his own army. He'd have to use it soon.

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Art by Nayzak

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Artists share their work inspired by Islamic tradition in our latest Artist Talks:

⁃Symmetry & Nature,

⁃Talking Illumination, Emily Washington

⁃Infinite Possibilities, Ameet Hindocha

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“One of the signs of the apocalypse is a slave who gives birth to her master... “

Arba'in Nawawi Hadeeth’s fragment No. 02

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AI Generated Islamic Art

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Couli or Dancer Playing Card for the Game of Nas, mid-19th century https://t.co/kWVFzWCaRM

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Zurich-based architect and programmer Michael Hansmeyer premiered his latest project 'Muqarana Mutation' at the in Tokyo. The project takes inspiration from the muqarna archetypes of historic islamic architecture.

📸 Photographs: Kyunsub Shin

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Thrilled to share the release of "Articulating the Ḥijāba: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus. The ʿĀmirid Regency c. 970-1010 AD" by Mariam Rosser-Oven - with illustrations by me! https://t.co/J16cOlTSuy

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Rustam meets the challenge of Ashkabus, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020), c. 1590-1600 https://t.co/uJ83IDOReE

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“Number Seven (N7)”
“Having to leave her friends and family, to unknown land, wasn’t easy for this young lady. However, wearing a Hijab in Afghanistan is a mandate for women, and the consequences of disobeying Islamic restrictions, are atrocious.”

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Omoplata 94 with 48” x 48” x 2” folded and assembled digital prints (detail view). Today is the opening of the Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival. If you are near the UAE go see the show! I have 9 new large pieces showing there. All of them are collaborations with …

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Fully constructed my variation of December eightfold patterns.
I love the underlying construction grid (pic 4) as much as the finished painting!

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Mawlānā Rūmī’s first encounter with Shams al-Dīn-i Tabrīzī.

Though he did not know it at the time, Rūmī’s meeting with the wandering mystic (qalandar) Shams al-Dīn would change his life and Islamic mysticism forever.

Mawlānā later wrote about it: (1/5)

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