Idries Trevathan and Mona AlJalhami are curators of Islamic art at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) in Dhahran Saudi Arabia. They are responsible for bringing together the exhibition Shatr Almasjid: The Art of Orientation, which this book accompanies. Murdo MacLeod is an editorial photographer based in Scotland. Mona Mansour is an Arab-American playwright based in New York

“The book should fill a real gap in contextual information, explaining the accoutrements of mosques and also their wide range of functions, as schools, hospitals, treasuries.”

Idries Trevathan and Mona AlJalhami are curators of Islamic art at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) in Dhahran Saudi Arabia. They are responsible for bringing together the exhibition Shatr Almasjid: The Art of Orientation, which this book accompanies. Murdo MacLeod is an editorial photographer based in Scotland. Mona Mansour is an Arab-American playwright based in New York

“The book should fill a real gap in contextual information, explaining the accoutrements of mosques and also their wide range of functions, as schools, hospitals, treasuries.”

Idries Trevathan and Mona AlJalhami are curators of Islamic art at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) in Dhahran Saudi Arabia. They are responsible for bringing together the exhibition Shatr Almasjid: The Art of Orientation, which this book accompanies. Murdo MacLeod is an editorial photographer based in Scotland. Mona Mansour is an Arab-American playwright based in New York

“The book should fill a real gap in contextual information, explaining the accoutrements of mosques and also their wide range of functions, as schools, hospitals, treasuries.”