as its author considered and reconsidered his interpretations over decades of writing. The manuscript I’d hunted down was a monumental work from 15th-century Cairo that shaped Sunni Islam as we ...

Writing is central to Islamic visual expression and the central element for all calligraphy is the text of the Quran. But in a matter of a few cleverly hung rooms the objects deftly illustrate the ...

As prince he also praised the likes of Martin Lings, an English Muslim convert and expert on Shakespeare, for his work on Islam, writing a foreword to one of Lings’ books. His interest in ...