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6 unusual facts about Islamic Art


Amir Shayesteh Tabar

During his study of Islamic art he came to the conclusion that after the Islamic Golden Age in Art, most of Islamic designs in different countries began to follow the same patterns and outlines, and that they are repeating the same concepts century after century, and concluded that this movement needed some innovation.

Arnau Mir de Tost

They are crafted in an abstract Islamic design, implying that they were originally from south of the frontier.

Kevin Lygo

Lygo then left the television industry for seven years, part of which he spent in France as a dealer in Islamic art, with a gallery in Paris.

Sabiha Al Khemir

Sabiha Al Khemir or Sabiha Khemir (born 1959) is a Tunisian writer, illustrator, and expert in Islamic art whose work is concerned with cultural bridging and cultural dialogues.

Vedic square

Numerous geometric patterns and symmetries can be observed in a Vedic square some of which can be found in traditional Islamic art.

Window at Tangier

After several trips outside of France, Matisse became interested in the Islamic art of North Africa.


Islamic toys

Until Recently Fitra toys, a company based in Hong Kong has introduced a diversified range of Islamic toys that combines a story book series and variety of Science DIY toys, wooden toys, and Islamic Art and craft.

Mohammed Racim

His talent for drawing was recognised during his primary education when he was given work copying Islamic decorative motifs for the state workshops set up by the Governor Charles Jonnart.

The Silver Key

During one of these dreams, his long-dead grandfather tells him of a silver key in his attic, inscribed with mysterious arabesque symbols, which he finds and takes with him on a visit to his boyhood home in the backwoods of northeastern Massachusetts (the setting for many of Lovecraft's stories), where he enters a mysterious cave that he used to play in.


see also

Ernst J. Grube

Grube held a simultaneous teaching appointment as Adjunct Professor of Islamic Art at Columbia University, In 1968 he was appointed Professor of Islamic and Far Eastern art at Hunter College in the City University of New York,

Franses

Jack Franses (1927–2010), English expert on Islamic art, carpets and textiles.

Hasan Shaheed Suhrawardy

Following his return to the sub-continent in 1932, Osmania University in Hyderabad commissioned him to write an introductory book on the Islamic art of different countries of the world.

Mamluk architecture

Mamluk architecture was a flowering of Islamic art during the reign of the Mamluks (1250–1517 AD) which is most visible in medieval Cairo.

Mario Taddei

The complete and unique study of all The Book of Secrets, all his machines and the pages are shown in the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha.

Suleymans Eagle

In the world survived three more similar in shape figurines (in Museum of Islamic Art (Berlin), in the city of Lucca in Italy and in Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt), but only on a copy that is stored in the "Hermitage" the date of manufacture, and perhaps it is the oldest of the four curved vessels.