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[:en]Islamic influences on Western art[:]

[:en]Islamic influences on Western art[:]

[:en]Islamic influences on Western art refers to the influence of Islamic art, the artistic production in the Islamic world from the 8th to the 19th century, on Christian art. During this period, the frontier between Christendom and the Islamic world varied a lot resulting in some cases in exchanges of populations and of corresponding art practices and techniques. Furthermore, the two…

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[:en]Chahartaq in architecture[:]

[:en]Chartaq (Persian: چارطاق‎) chahartaq (چهارطاق), chartaqi (چارطاقی), or chahartaqi (چهارطاقی), literally meaning “four arches”, is an architectural unit consisted of four barrel vaults and a dome.

Chartaq, in architecture, the body with a quadrilateral background and a dome cover consisting of a four-poster and a dome arch on it, is said to be four arched entrances. Foursquare is called Four,…

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[:en]Traditional Persian residential architecture[:]

[:en]Traditional Persian residential architecture[:]

[:en]Traditional Persian residential architecture, is the architecture employed by builders and craftsmen in the cultural Greater Iran and the surrounding regions to construct vernacular houses. The art draws from various cultures and elements from both Islamic and pre-Islamic times.

Located in deserts and arid regions, Persian cities (mostly in present-day Iran) have hot summers and cold, dry…

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[:en]Tatar mosque[:]

[:en]Tatar mosque — is the typical mosque architecture in Tatarstan and other Volga Tatar-populated areas of Russia. Occasionally found in other regions of Russia, modern Tatar religious architecture was developed in the late 18th century and gained popularity in the 19th century Idel-Ural.

History The earliest examples of Islamic Tatar architecture are located in Bolghar; none of them are in use…

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[:en]Seljuk architecture[:]

[:en]Seljuk architecture comprises the building traditions used by the Seljuq dynasty, when it ruled most of the Middle East and Anatolia during the 11th to 13th centuries. After the 11th century, the Seljuks of Rum emerged from the Great Seljuk Empire developing their own architecture, though they were influenced and inspired by the Armenian, Byzantine and Persian architectural traditions.

Histo…

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[:en]Razi style[:]

[:en]The “Razi style” (شیوه معماری رازی) is a style (sabk) of architecture when categorizing Iranian architecture development in history.

The Razi style is a style in Iranian architecture that dates back to the fifth century until the beginning of the seventh century ( Samanids, Seljukis, and Khwarazmshahids ).

he architectural style of Razi began during the reign of the “Al Ziar” dynasty and…

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[:en]Moroccan architecture[:]

[:en]Moroccan architecture dates from 110 BCE with the massive pisé (mud brick) buildings. The architecture has been influenced by Islamization during the Idrisid dynasty, Moorish exiles from Spain, and also by France who occupied Morocco in 1912.

Morocco is in Northern-Africa bordering the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The country’s diverse geography and the land’s long history marked by…

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[:en]Mamluk architecture[:]

[:en]Mamluk architecture was a flowering of Islamic art during the reign of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), which is most visible in medieval Cairo. Religious zeal made them generous patrons of architecture and art. Trade and agriculture flourished under Mamluk rule, and Cairo, their capital, became one of the wealthiest cities in the Near East and the center of artistic and intellectual…

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[:en]Khorasani style[:]

[:en]The Khorasani style (Persian: شیوه معماری خراسانی‎) is a style (sabk) of architecture when categorizing Iranian architecture development in history. It is the first style of architecture appearing after the Muslim conquest of Persia, but is highly influenced by pre-Islamic designs. Landmarks of this style appear in the late 7th century, and span through the end of the 10th century CE.

Exampl…

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[:en]Isfahani style[:]

[:en]The “Esfahani” or “Isfahani style” (شیوه معماری اصفهانی) is a style (sabk) of architecture when categorizing Iranian architecture development in history. Landmarks of this style span through the Safavid, Afsharid, Zand, and Qajar dynasties starting from the 16th century to the early 20th century.

The Isfahani style is the last style of traditional Persian—Iranian architecture.

The Safavid…

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[:en]Indonesian mosques[:]

[:en]Indonesian mosques refer to the architectural traditions of mosques build in the archipelago of Indonesia. Initial forms of the mosque, for example, were predominantly built in the vernacular Indonesian architectural style which employs Hindu, Buddhist or Chinese architectural elements, and notably didn’t equip orthodox form of Islamic architectural elements such as dome and minaret.…

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[:en]Fatimid architecture[:]

[:en]The Fatimid architecture that developed in the Fatimid Caliphate (909–1167 CE) of North Africa combined elements of eastern and western architecture, drawing on Abbasid architecture, Byzantine, Ancient Egyptian, Coptic architecture and North African traditions; it bridged early Islamic styles and the medieval architecture of the Mamluks of Egypt, introducing many innovations.

The wealth of…

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[:en]Islamic architecture in China[:]

[:en]Islamic architecture in China[:]

[:en]In Chinese, a mosque is called pure truth temple (清真寺). The Great Mosque of Xi’an (first established during the Tang era) and the Great Southern Mosque in Jinan, whose current buildings date from the Ming Dynasty, do not replicate many of the features often associated with traditional mosques. Instead, they follow traditional Chinese architecture. Mosques in western China incorporate more of…

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[:en]Azeri style[:]

[:en]The “Azerbaijani style” or “Azeri style” (Persian: شیوهٔ معماری آذری‎) is a style (sabk) of architecture when categorizing Iranian architecture development in Iranian Azerbaijan history. Landmarks of this style of architecture span from the late 13th century (Ilkhanate) to the appearance of the Safavid Dynasty in the 16th century CE.

This historic period has some distinctive features of…

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[:en]Anatolian beyliks[:zh]安那托利亚比利克斯[:es]Beyliks de Anatolia[:ar]إمارات الأناضول[:fr]Beyliks anatoliens[:de]Anatolische Beyliks[:]

[:en]Anatolian beyliks, sometimes known as Turkmen beyliks, were small principalities (or petty kingdoms) in Anatolia governed by Beys, the first of which were founded at the end of the 11th century. A second more extensive period of foundations took place as a result of the decline of the Seljuq Sultanate of Rûm in the second half of the 13th century.

One of the beyliks, that of the Ottomans…

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[:en]Abbasid architecture[:]

[:en]Abbasid architecture developed in the Abbasid Caliphate between 750 and 945, primarily in its heartland of Mesopotamia. The Abbasids inherited Persian architectural traditions in Mesopotamia, and were later influenced by Central Asian styles. They evolved distinctive styles of their own, particularly in decoration of their buildings. While the Abbasids lost control of large parts of their…

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[:en]History of Islamic art[:]

[:en]History of Islamic art[:]

[:en]Islamic art encompasses the visual arts produced from the 7th century onward by people who lived within the territory that was inhabited by or ruled by culturally Islamic populations. It is thus a very difficult art to define because it covers many lands and various peoples over some 1,400 years; it is not art specifically of a religion, or of a time, or of a place, or of a single medium…