This article intends to analyze how the Andalusian Muslim traveler Ibn Jubayr uses sacred texts of Islam and, mainly, Arab-Muslim concepts hijra and jihād think about case interreligious coexistence in Kingdom Sicily. Thinking travel pilgrimage are operationalized medieval world, as well discursive role Riḥla’s literary genre, which Jubayr's report is inscribed, we will author question uses, fo...

the manner of understanding of muslims mystics such as ghazzali, sohrevardi and najmeddin kubar about light, degrees of lights, coloured lights and realm of imagination is an issue that this essay intends to study it. in this research, the matters about the influence of gnostics thoughts and islamic theologians on persian painting are presented. certainly if the artist is qualified for deep of ...

1. Among the many different star-like motifs used in the geometrical art of Islam, there is one which stands out as distinctively "Islamic" (see fig. 1). We shall call this motif a geometric rosette, since it resembles a flower or rosette, with an outer ring formed by a variable number of "petals" encircling a central star. One possible interpretation of the formal, if not historical, origin of...

The Sacred Way project is a cooperative international initiative for multimedia education in archaeology and Classical civilisation. The project is currently supported by the European Community COMETT II programme. Planned activities include seminars and courses, intended to introduce archaeologists, museum professionals and humanities educators to the techniques and potential of digital multim...

the progress and excellence of females in the islamic society is one of the fundamentalconcerns of imam khomeini in his interviews and speeches. he would frequently admit theimportance and influence of women in the islamic movement, as well as their important rolein the progress of various fields in iran. according to imam khomeini’s belief, womencompared to men had an equal, and even sometimes...