online rihla

Visual Dhikr highlights some of the artists that will be showing their work at Islam Expo 2008.  Go check it out and visit their websites.

The muslim art I have hanging on my walls is calligraphy, but I can definately see putting something like this up.  It’s a depiction of the haraam, the kaba in the […]

http://www.funci.org/en/
Definately a worthy place to wile away the hours online.  Their online exhibition of Iraq is particularly awesome.

There are two gifts that I wished Allah (swt) had blessed me with - artistic ability and a beautiful voice with which to recite the Qur’an.   Since He did not, I am constantly on the lookout for beautiful Islamic Art and recitations of the Qur’an.  This weekend, I found another example of the former.  […]

Via Deenport
BBC Radio interview here, starts at 18:01, transcript here.  Check out his pictures here.

I have a huge stack of documents sitting on my living room floor that I brought home to do over the long weekend, so of course, I decided to go through the Shadhili wiki article and click on all the links instead.  Ah, procrastination at it’s finest.
 In the course of my clicking, I happened upon […]

Ah, time to start another one of my online Ramadan traditions - DeviantArt browsing.  Lots of talented muslim artists on the site, mashAllah, and lots beautiful potential wallpapers for my computer :)  There’s so much out there, I usually end up changing my background every few days during the month.
Some of the newer pieces this […]

According to the Silk Route stocklist, it looks like they’ve got a distributer in the US. Oooo, now if only he would hurry up and start selling online! You can view their stuff at the new islamicdesignhouse website, where it looks like they’re also going to be selling shirts with Aerosol Arabic and VisualDhikr […]

Prints are available for some artwork at Deviant Art. It’s an affordable way to support muslim artists. Check these out.

Via Visual Dhikr:
The British Library’s online gallery of their sacred texts exhibit.

The Ma’il Qur’an is one of the very earliest Qur’ans in the world, dating back to the eighth century. Not only that, but it also probably hails from the Hijaz region of Arabia - a region which contains the holy places of Mecca and […]

Passed on to me by my friend Noura, take time to explore this beautiful look at Islamic History and the art it created.

Discovery Islamic Art Online

I had a hard time picking which pictures to include in this post, as each era produced such unique and fascinating art.

Ceramic tile with a picture of the […]