Alam is a symbol of standards carried in Karbala, which is shouldered by some mourners during Muharram’s ceremonies. The historical object will be unveiled at the “Night’s Sun” exhibition, which will ...

The exhibition 'Fashioning an Empire: Textiles from Safavid Iran' has opened at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) and will be on view in MIA's Sheikh Saoud Gallery until April 20, 2024, highlighting the ...

Qatar Museums (QM) is set to present Fashioning an Empire: Textiles from Safavid Iran, an exhibition featuring a selection of extraordinary textiles from its collection, on view at the Museum of ...

With their sumptuous surfaces, original designs, and technical sophistication, luxury textiles played a critical role in the social, cultural, religious, and economic life of Safavid Iran (1501–1722).

Khosro Khajeh Nouri and Neda Honarmandi have translated the book and Amir Kabir Publishing House has brought it out in 727 pages, ISNA reported. The 10th volume in the series “The Idea of Iran,” the ...

From the 14th to the 16th century, Iran had witnessed growth and affluence under the Timurid and Safavid dynasties. During this period, many mosques, palaces and pavilions were commissioned and ...

"The prophet Muhammad and the early Islamic community radically redefined the concept of time that they had inherited from earlier religions' beliefs and practices. This new temporal system, based on ...

Intricately patterned Persian carpets are renowned the world over, with the Safavid period considered one of the high points of the art form. But because relatively fewer have survived, other textiles ...

The Safavid Dynasty, a Golden Age in Iran, witnessed a cultural flowering under the charismatic Isma'il and and his son Tahmasp, the first two Shahs of the dynasty. This essay is a short history of ...

Chaldiran (چالدران) today is a small, sleepy town in northwestern Iran near the Turkish border. Yet, nearly five hundred years ago to the day, on August 23, 1514, the plains outside of Chaldiran ...