Islamic Arts - Expressing the great Heritage and its Beauty

Islamic Arts - Expressing the great Heritage and its Beauty

As it is an imperative for every Muslim to abide by the al – Tawhid and the Shari’ah, the association of things and sensory images with God was meticulously avoided by Muslims in all of their autistics works. This collection celebrates the beauty of the positive verse and the romance of the Arabic language. Through the use of color, movement and text it illustrates a powerful representation of each word, visually expressing the great heritage and artistic traditions of this script.

 

The beauty of Arabic writing

Islamic Art

islamic and arabic art Calligraphy الفن الاسلامي

Never has any Muslim mosque contained an object associated with divinity. It will be either decorated with the verses from the Qur’an or with abstract arabesques in the forms of stylized stalk, leaf and flower, or geometrical figures which by its nature free from any divine nature. As being said by Ernst Diez, he defined Islamic art as ‘ the art of Islam or Islamic art is that art which expresses submission to Allah ’ Fine arts of the Islamic people are eclectic in nature. The Muslims, Arabs as well as non Arabs, inherited the artistic traditions of the ancient Middle East and they molded the prevalent art forms according to the principles of al –tawhid and the shari’ah, evolving their own styles and added their own original contributions to fine arts. An example is the Arabic calligraphy which is a sacred art because it transmits the Qur’an, the words of God.

 

There are many master calligraphers like Ibn Muqlah, Ibn al – Bawwab and Yaqut al – Musta’simi transformed the letters of the Arabic alphabet into a fine art. The fine arts of the Islamic civilization were not produced by any single race or country but these were the achievements of diverse races of mankind professing and practising Islam in many countries at different periods of history but with the Islamic ideology as its basis.

Basically, the Islamic architectures have their own dominant nature depicting the Islamic concept in them. The major use of qubbah (dome) in the building of mosques with arabesque decoration in the forms of geometric, vegetal and calligraphic ornaments have been used throughout the Muslim World. These domes, in the religious sense, symbolises the unity of the ummah from various races and places to the objective in worshipping to the One and Only God. The first mosque to be built with domes is the Qubhat al – Sakhra (The Dome of The Rock) in Jerusalem during the Umayyad era. Arches were also greatly introduced by the Muslim architects. Reflecting the need to climb up to a high place by the muazzin in the call of prayer (adhan), has led to the evolution of minarets in the Islamic architecture. The first minaret was constructed at the Central mosque in Basrah around 45 Hijrah. The idea of mimbar (pulpit) for the imam to give his sermons and mihrab which is a special place for the imam to lead the prayer with his followers, have given rise to their existence in the Islamic architecture. As we can see, Islamic civilization is very rich in its architectural heritage. Thus, there is no doubt that the Islamic ideology that influenced such great manifestations to its architecture is the principle of al – Tawhid and the Shari’ah.