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 ...

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 ...

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.

Medieval Islamic artisans developed a process for creating elaborate, nonrepeating patterns now associated with Penrose tiles. Skip to content Subscribe or renew today ...

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 ...

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

Islamic tiles reveal sophisticated maths. Muslim artists were 500 years ahead of western researchers. Philip Ball The pattern on the Darb-i Imam shrine, built in 1453, is almost ...

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.

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