Sentences with phrase «traditional islamic»

In fashion designer Liza Bruce's Moroccan house, sage green covers the mirrored wall, which is based on a traditional Islamic design.

In fashion designer Liza Bruce's Moroccan house, the tub and fittings are in the shape of an eight - pointed star, and the mirrored wall treatment is based on a traditional Islamic design.

In designing the towers, the architects drew inspiration from Arab mashrabiya windows — sun and privacy screens found in traditional Islamic architecture.

Ouroussoff describes how architect Norman Foster studied traditional islamic planning and ancient construction practices.

The design, by Studio Nicoletti Associati, was inspired by ship sails and traditional Islamic architecture.

Ms. Farmanfarmaian's dazzling, mirrored sculptures and jewelry combine architecture, celestial geometry and Sufism with traditional Islamic craft techniques to produce a kaleidoscopic effect.

Depicting a traditional Islamic ritual, the painting showed six identically dressed Mawlawi dervishes performing a Sema or dance — the expressive figures typical of Said's output.

Drawing inspiration from traditional Islamic motifs, this work confronts visitors as a wall installation which signifies the fragility of victimized lands laid out on a fictional map.

Utilizing a vocabulary of architectural motifs, Ouadahi makes large - scale paintings that borrow from the history of modernist grid painting and traditional Islamic aesthetics, while tackling the difficult and timely topic of human migration.

Neshat, who was born in Iran and moved to the United States in 1978, at the age of 17, is highly acclaimed for her films, photographs, and videos that explore the experience of women living in contemporary and traditional Islamic cultures.

Although artists like Koraichi, Shaw, Ataman, and Shirin Neshat, in particular, use formal devices associated with traditional Islamic art, their work nonetheless operates within the context of contemporary art through the subversion and critique of the sources they appropriate.

The wall text one confronts at the onset before catching even a glimpse of any of the works on display insists the artist's importance as one of the most significant modern artists from post-Independent India and situates her cosmopolitanism by citing influences such as Kazimir Malevich and Paul Klee alongside traditional Islamic art.

Essays by MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry, whose own academic and curatorial background involves traditional Islamic arts; Homi Bhabha, the preeminent theorist and scholar of the postcolonial condition; and the Turkish writer and novelist Orhan Pamuk, winner of the German Book Peace Prize and author of My Name Is Read and Snow.

Essaydi was raised in Morocco and spent many years in Saudi Arabia, and although she was educated in Europe and the United States, this experience of traditional Islamic life was fundamental in shaping her.

The hotel also features stunning interior décor inspired by both modern and traditional Islamic design and complemented by contemporary art works.

The term «wajib» refers to an obligatory practice in traditional Islamic culture.

Muslims living in the United States can choose whether to use traditional Islamic methods, or date American - style; Muslims choosing to stick to Islamic tradition can «only marry another Muslim», according to one Malaysian account.

Helahel has been designed to allow you to search for your ideal life partner in a safe environment while following traditional Islamic principles.

Helahel offers a modern single Muslim matrimonial matching service based on traditional Islamic values.

Muslim singles often give preference to dating sites that support traditional Islamic marriages — but it's hard to know which websites uphold Muslim values and which only pay lip service to it.

In traditional Islamic culture, there is a overwhelming emphasis on the importance of marriage.

Although this is a traditional Islamic garment, their influence can be seen in many examples of contemporary dress throughout the Western world.

It is exactly Qatar's balance between respecting traditional Islamic teachings and maintaining an openness towards the outside world that has repeatedly allowed the small Gulf state to act as a mediator between Arab actors and the West, for instance by securing the release of US soldier Bowe Bergdahl from the Afghan Taliban in May 2014.

If she continued to refuse to submit to traditional Islamic strictures, she would elicit the hostility of radical Muslims.

Al Qaeda, is a group that CLAIMS to be Muslim (but is NOT) and have made their own interpretation and understanding of the Quran and Islam and have themselves said that they reject all traditional Islamic thought.

The letter ends with a traditional Islamic phrase, «Peace to whoever follows the path» — the path, that is, of belief in and faithful response to the one God.

These declarations shape the doctrine of the traditional Islamic schools of jurisprudence: All four Sunni schools, and the standard Shi'ite school, agree that apostates are to be executed (although more and more Muslims today disagree).

So far as I am aware, process thinkers have not critiqued the traditional Islamic doctrines of God; but the process arguments would seem to be far more devastating when applied, say; to the «occasionalism» of al - Ashari's doctrine of divine power than to the Augustinian or Thomistic notions of God.

Although Muslims and Christians do not share identical scriptures, the traditional Islamic view of the biblical narrative is nuanced and often very well informed.

Traditional Islamic jurisprudence is aware of such circumstances and exhorts Muslims «to honor treaties and agreements brokered by non-Muslims.»

As for the traditional Islamic countries, Lewis assumes that the future for the Islamic nations can only be a secular society along Western lines.

For the families in this desolate ghetto, one of Cairo's poorest, a visit from this chubby woman in a traditional Islamic head scarf means they will not have to go to sleep on an empty stomach - at least, not tonight.

When his daughter was married, they wore traditional Islamic garb.

Economic development and an increasingly global commerce in movies, TV, and other forms of popular culture weaken traditional Islamic institutions and disturb and disorient many Muslims.

Not exact matches

Jettisoning its traditional antipathy to the Taliban, Russia indicates readiness to negotiate with the Taliban against the backdrop of the growing threat of Islamic State in Afghanistan.

Moreover, if the Islamic State needed to finance itself with donations it can rely on the traditional underground money transferring in the Middle East — Hawala.

Especially during Ramadan, the traditional month of giving, all entities big and small do their part for the community, often without publicity, as is the Islamic tradition.

Islamic fundamentalists have gone to extreme lengths to preserve their own traditional mores, which in some respects differ significantly from those in the Christian West.

Charles Long, a black historian of religion, has long sought to widen the scope of black theology so as to include serious dialogue with African, Islamic, and other non-Western and traditional religions.

Additionally, it has been well documented that a monotheistic conception of ultimate reality is indigenous to almost all of traditional African culture, and that it is highly probable that traditional African theism, like Judeo - Christian and Islamic theism, has its historical genesis in the monotheism of a black pharaoh of ancient Egypt — Iknaton ---- who was the first person known to have popularized the religious conviction that there is one, and only one, god.

Recently, in a city in Syria, an Islamist group imposed on Christian citizens the dhimma, the traditional «agreement» governing relations with Christians in Islamic law.

For example, social democratic societies (like many in Western Europe), traditional economies (like most in the third world), and Muslim economies that have been influenced by Western economies (but remain different from them on key Islamic principles).

It was this ruling cadre that arranged, in 1986, for Nigeria to join the Islamic Conference» a decision that sparked something approaching panic among Nigeria's Christians, whose traditional inclination to scorn the political order they have now, however belatedly, begun to regret.

She wore a traditional hijab in the image, but the college said that it was suspending her not for her stand with those of the Islamic faith, but for saying that Muslims and Christians worship the same God.

Moreover «secular modernists command no following on the Islamic street», their contribution only «drives the moderate traditional majority of Muslims into the embrace of the fundamentalists.»

The influence has been so great that even when the Islamic people have regained their political independence they have found that a return to the traditional way of life was not possible — even if it were desirable.

And other theological voices (black liberation, feminist, Islamic, Asian, Hispanic, African, Jewish, and Western white male traditional) will provide insights relevant for the construction of the God - content of womanist theology.

CASE STUDY 4: Protecting fragile resources through traditional management in Naw, Islamic Republic of Iran

[1] They fear that a brotherhood victory will not only embolden the already problematic Islamist opposition at home but also set the grounds for Egypt reclaiming leadership of the Islamic world, upstaging the traditional role of Saudi Arabia.

Sukuk is a financial certificate, similar to the traditional government bond, but complies with Sharia, Islamic religious law.