For generations Cartier looked to the patterns, colors and shapes of the Islamic world to create striking jewelry.

Collector Nasreen Askari and her husband, Hasan, have turned their home into Pakistan’s first textile museum.

Until recently few outsiders knew the wooden mosques dotting the highlands of Georgia existed, leaving many of them to deteriorate. The rediscovery of the architectural gems has sparked a movement for their preservation.

In Smorgasbords of Andalusi and Mahgribi Dishes, Arab food historian Nawal Nasrallah breathes new life into an anonymously compiled 13th-century cookbook.

Across the Arabian Gulf, the traditional weaving craft records social heritage.

Artisans are preserving the elusive technique behind these pearls—handmade from a fish, not an oyster—in a town of Slavic, Byzantine and Ottomon influences.