Problems of Definition
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![]() Problems of Definition
![]() Where does the term “Islamic art” come from?
![]() Major collections (Smithsonian/Sackler, Metropolitan) include everything made or used by Muslims as “Islamic art,” but there is no equivalent category of “Christian art”
![]() Unusual example of Sura 106 on the divine unity, inscribed over geometric tile (Granada, Tower of the Captive): “He, God is One; God is eternal, neither born nor begotten…”
![]() “We only sent you [Muhammad] as a mercy for creation” (Qur'an 21:107)
![]() ![]() Created for elite patrons by skilled craftsmen
![]() Art created for Muslim patrons (often by non-Muslim artisans): Dome of the Rock
![]() harem fantasies and romantic depictions of heroic Arab horsemen
![]() Shirin Neshat, 1996 (text on hand is from a Persian poem)
![]() “Islamic” related to central religious texts and authorities
![]() The Jannat al-Baqi` cemetery in Medina, before 1925 destruction
![]() Bamiyan, Afghanistan: Buddhas destroyed by Taliban
![]() ![]() The Qur’an and the word of God
![]() "His alifs (ا) were like the tall sapling-figures that give peace to the soul, and the eye of his sad (ص) was like the eye of the youthful sweethearts. His dal (د) and lam (ل) were like the tresses of heart-ravishing beloveds, and the circles of the nun (ن) were like the eyebrows of devastating beauties. Every one of his dots was like the pupil of the dark-eyed, and every one of his strokes was like the water of life in the darkness of running ink.”
![]() "Authority" is that condition in which the scribe becomes enraptured from its display when it is found in writing, and he has done with egotism. When the scribe's pen possesses "authority," heedless of the pleasures of the world, he turns his heart toward practice (mashq), and the luminous sparks of the real beloved's beauty appear in his vision.
![]() “The word of your face is gazing at the sacred mosque”
![]() “Do not disfigure the face, for God created man [Adam, humanity] in His form” (hadith)
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