Art is the mirror of a
culture and its world view, There is no case to which this statement more directly applies
than to the art of the Islamic world. Not only does its art reflect its cultural values,
but even more importantly, the way in which its adherents, the Muslims, view the spiritual
realm, the universe, life, and the relationship of the parts to the whole.
For the Muslim, reality
begins with and centers around God ("Allah" in Arabic), the One, the Unique, the
Sovereign, the Holy, the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the Loving, the Most Merciful. All
existence is subject to His will and His laws. He is the center of conscious Muslims'
worship and aspirations, the focus of their lives.
Civilization is the state's most
superior and remaining tradition, the Arabs and those who believed in Islam had tradition,
participation and innovation since the Ancient ages,yet it had not became deep,
comprehensive, brightened but with Islam, whose conquests extended from India in eastern
the Atlantic ocean in west, remaining stable in some of its countries, passing or
neighboring each other.
These and those sciences and arts thus they brought
it into it and they mingled between its sciences and there's.Here Islam shined with what
gave destination and science,fairness and arts renaissance and industries a security and
life's means, progress and happiness.
The substantial civilization we mean the
remainder antiquities are the most sincere and most strong proof than the narrated,
written civilization or of these taken by comprehension and conclusion.
If civilization's scientists gained its
nobles they would have had strong proofs and full resources of searching assets for the
Islamic civilization of its ancient and its modern, and ammunition full of meetings
between each civilization in it and the rest ones in its successive stages.
If scientists of civilization's history are
depending in their studies on the Nations' remainders of transmitted curios of pleasure,
tools...... etc through which they got acquainted and its conditions, habits and the way
it was in its life and daily living, through which they measure its progress and
back-wardens degrees, originality or fakeness and how this all connect and the ability of
improving industry, varying life's needs , intelligence, good taste and the technical
skill.
We say if the
transmitted curios had such appreciation at the scientists of civilization's history which
is a great deal, there is no doubt that stable curios, we mean establishments and
buildings had greater deal of concluding the stable facts that don't fear, thus
architecture and what is similar to it of old antiquities on the top of what are adhered
by scientists of civilization's history listening to it and finding out what it hides and
declares when they wrote down the history of ancient people .
With such a belief system, the
Muslim is convinced of the balance and harmony of all things in existence, even when there
appear to be confusing contradictions and imbalances, regarding these as the reflection of
man's limited understanding and knowledge. Nothing is looked upon as occurring randomly or
by chance, for all is part of the Plan of the All-Wise, Most Merciful Planner. One of the
vital beliefs of the Muslim is that the totality of things, all good and evil, proceed
from the Lord of all being.
Because of the strict injunctions against such depictions of
humans or animals which might result in idol-worship, Islamic art developed a unique
character, utilizing a number of primary forms: geometric, arabesque, floral, and
calligraphic, which are often interwoven. From early times, Muslim art has reflected this
balanced, harmonious world-view. |
