Islamic tile is an important art form in the history of Islamic art. Islamic artists and artisans developed it over centuries as a branch of architecture and interior decoration. Islamic tiles can be ...

WASHINGTON - Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may cloak a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years.

Mathematicians find that geometric patterns in medieval Islamic tiles even more complicated that previously thought, with one configuration not discovered in West until 1970s.

Girih tile reconstruction of the strapwork pattern on an interior archway in the Sultan’s Lodge in the Green Mosque in Bursa, Turkey. (Courtesy: Science) Islamic architects and mathematicians were ...

Medieval Islamic artisans developed a process for creating elaborate, nonrepeating patterns now associated with Penrose tiles.

Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may contain a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years.

Scrolls by Islamic artists to explain their methods show tiles with these shapes, confirming that they were used as conceptual building blocks.

He said the tiles were a gift and he paid no money for them, but a Customs and Border Protection officer at the airport blocked the mosque from claiming the tiles, citing the sanctions.

Medieval Islamic designers used elaborate geometrical tiling patterns at least 500 years before Western mathematicians developed the concept. The geometric design, called “girih”, was widely ...

Proud students unveiled their art at an Islamic school in Greenwood Heights last Tuesday. The fifth annual Al-Noor School art fair kicked off on Tuesday and ran all week. The event was more than just ...

The swirling Arabesque ceramic tiles used in medieval Islamic mosaics and architecture were produced using geometry not understood in the West until the 1970s.