Show the average Westerner a page of abstract Arabic calligraphy and he’ll see nothing but squiggly lines. Show the same page to a devout Muslim and – literate or not – he may see the Word of God.

Islamic architects and mathematicians were creating quasi-crystalline patterns some 500 years before similar patterns were described in the West, claim two physicists in the US. Peter J Lu of Harvard ...

Islamic geometric patterns and architecture represent a profound synthesis of mathematical precision and artistic expression inherent in centuries of cultural heritage. These patterns are not merely ...

Patterning and periodic structures are very important in physics. This led to a tremendous amount of work on learning what shapes can tile an area or fill a volume. It was found that these shapes must ...

In stretches of intricate tiling on several 500-year-old Islamic buildings, Peter Lu and Paul Steinhardt wrote, they'd spotted a large fragment of a mathematical pattern that was unknown to Western ...

The seminar was attended by Jean-Marc Castera, an established French expert in Islamic geometric art, who scrutinized connections between mathematics, arts and geometric arabesques. Professional ...

Islam's unattainably high standards for governmental behavior meant historically that existing leaders, with their many faults, alienated Muslim subjects, who responded by refusing to serve those ...