islamic art vocabulary
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Koran/Qu’ran Hadj Mosque Qibla Imam Minbar Mihrab. Minaret Squinches Crenellation Muezzin Moorish Kufic. Islamic Art Vocabulary. Islam. 570 - Mohamed born into Quraysh tribe from Mecca 610 - he received divine orders to recite in praise of Allah - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Islamic Art
Vocabulary• Koran/Qu’ran• Hadj• Mosque• Qibla• Imam• Minbar• Mihrab
• Minaret• Squinches• Crenellation• Muezzin• Moorish• Kufic
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Islam
•570 - Mohamed born into Quraysh tribe from Mecca•610 - he received divine orders to recite in praise of Allah•651- Recitations written down into the Koran•Pray 5 times a day facing Mecca, fast during Ramadan, make a pilgrimage to Mecca (for those who can), give alms•“There is but one God, Allah, and Mohamed is his prophet”•Began preaching a monotheistic religion-lost favor in Mecca•Went to Medina and gained followers to protect the faith•By 632-Islam dominated over half of Arabia •Moved further, quicker than Christianity-Constantinople attacked in the 670s but not conquered•Moved through Africa into Spain by 711•Stopped from invading France in 732 by Charles Martel•Constantinople conquered in 1453 by the Ottoman Turks
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Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, 687-92
•Umayyad Caliph Abd Al-Malik
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Dome of the Rock,
Jerusalem, 687-92
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Great Mosque of Cordoba, Spain, 8-10 centuries
Minaret
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•Abd-al-Rahman I •786-787•Enlarged in 832-848, 961, and 987•Crenellated/crenellation •Moorish
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Interior of the Great Mosque of Cordoba
Hypostyle prayer hall
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Maqsura, Mosque of Cordoba
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Dome of the Great Mosque of Cordoba,
961-976
MihrabQiblaSquinches
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Koran page, 9-10th century
Kufic script
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The Ardabil Carpet, Iran, 1540
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Malwiya Minaret of the Great
Mosque, Samarra, Iraq,
848-52•Minaret•Malwiya- “snail shell”