Islamic Art

Vocabulary• Koran/Qu’ran• Hadj• Mosque• Qibla• Imam• Minbar• Mihrab

• Minaret• Squinches• Crenellation• Muezzin• Moorish• Kufic

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

Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, 687-92

•Umayyad Caliph Abd Al-Malik

Dome of the Rock,

Jerusalem, 687-92

Great Mosque of Cordoba, Spain, 8-10 centuries

Minaret

•Abd-al-Rahman I •786-787•Enlarged in 832-848, 961, and 987•Crenellated/crenellation •Moorish

Interior of the Great Mosque of Cordoba

Hypostyle prayer hall

Maqsura, Mosque of Cordoba

Dome of the Great Mosque of Cordoba,

961-976

MihrabQiblaSquinches

Koran page, 9-10th century

Kufic script

The Ardabil Carpet, Iran, 1540

Malwiya Minaret of the Great

Mosque, Samarra, Iraq,

848-52•Minaret•Malwiya- “snail shell”