We Didn’t Destroy the Kaaba: Decentering Islamic Art

Islamic Art is a spiritual project, a way of seeing and making that brings us back to fitra, to unity, to remembrance. It has always been a long-standing project of non-Muslim colonizers to fix and confine the beauty of Islam. But to the contrary, Islamic Art, like the Kaaba, invites us—wherever we come from—to face and express a common truth together.