by iwamag | Feb 24, 2016 | issue #2 | winter 2016, the bookshelf
The Bookshelf Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem by Lawrence Nees Brill Publication date: October 2015 ISBN: 9789004301764 Hardback, 235 pages, 71 illustrations $ 179,00 Almost every month a new book on Jerusalem and its long history is published, but...
by iwamag | Feb 18, 2016 | issue #2 | winter 2016
Maritime art has been drawing on the history and destiny of thousands of men and women since the 16th century. Today, maritime installations tell us something more about what we are prepared to do to survive and of the price of indifference Dr. Bilgehan Köhler Curator...
by iwamag | Feb 18, 2016 | issue #2 | winter 2016, literary brackets
In 1963, the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani wrote Men in the Sun, the tragic story of three Palestinian refugees who put their lives at risk for the sake of a better future Sara Ibrahim IWA – Islamic World of Art’s Editor-in-Chief and Publishing...
by iwamag | Feb 18, 2016 | issue #2 | winter 2016
Photos by Abdulrahman Bader and Massimo Tartaro As Oleg Grabar puts it, “The Great Mosque of Cordoba is acknowledged as a major masterpiece of Islamic architecture”. The Great Mosque of Cordoba has been described by scholars as both a typical hypostyle mosque (i.e. a...
by iwamag | Feb 18, 2016 | issue #2 | winter 2016, the bookshelf
The Bookshelf The Hajj, Pilgrimage in Islam by Eric Tagliacozzo and Shawkat M. Toorawa Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo and Shawkat M. Toorawa Cambridge University Press Publication date: November 2015 ISBN: 9781107612808 Paperback, 441 pages $ 29,99 “The Hajj is one of the...
by iwamag | Feb 17, 2016 | issue #2 | winter 2016
What an indie video game on geometry and maths can tell us about Islamic design Giulia Gallini IWA – Islamic World of Art’s Editor-in-Chief The Islamic Art Historian Pure Islamic art is something you do not see frequently in video games. As a matter of fact,...
