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Art work and Achitecture
- Calligraphy- the art of producing decorative handwriting or leterring witha pen or brush
- Arabesque-A complex ornate design that usally incorpates flowers, leaves and geometric figures.
Influences of Muslim art
- When the empire expanded, art techinques were picked up
- Roman and Christian art
- pres- Islmic art as well
- Chinese art
- Allah and Islam religion
Types of Art
- Calligraphy- hadn writing, many books like tehh Auran are written in this
- relflect glory of Allah
- Picures are formed in the writing
Arabesque
- Paintings
- Rugs and carptets
- Ceramics
- Tiles
- Glassware
Muslim Achectecture
- Moorish archicture is used tod es ribe the Islamic architecture of North Africa and parts of Spain and Portuhal wlhere the moors wre dominat from 711-1948
- Moorish architecture reached its peak i the constructions of Alhambra a fancy palace/ fortress in Granada
Holy Sanctuarly of Kaba
- in 630 CE Muhammads army reconqured the city of mecca from the Banu Quraish tribe
- they reconstructed the holy sactuary of kaba
- this sanctuary was the first major work of the islamic architecture
- Kaba is the most importan sacred spont in the Islamic religion
Muslim Archictecture
- A set of tiles call girih tiles were used to creat decorative patterns on buildings in the islamic archicture
- the Great mosque of samarra in Iraq complete in 847 AD combined the hypostyle archiecture of rows and columns by making ahuge spiraling minaret.
Math
- Muslim scholars believed that math was the basis of all knolwege
- during this tiem algebra and algorithms became developed
- a man by the name of Al-Khawarizmi invented Algebra
- Spherical trigonometry along with all of the other trigonometric funcitons were invented
Muslim Literature
The book fo one thousand nights
- Also known as Arabian Night, the book of one thousand nights is a collection of Arabic tales
- With many differnt authors ad tales coming together. this book was brought toghether during the Islamic period
- Although well knows stories in this book weere aded later on there are some basic framing devices that connect each story
- the basic idea is there sa Persian King his new wife, Through infedielty in tis marrige and his brother marriage the king decides that all women ar alike.
- He marrys virgins and kills them all
- Eventaully the kings meets Scheherazade w ho marries him adn tells him a tale, never ending ti so that her execution is postoponed, And tha thow it goes for one thousand and one nights
- Until she kills him
Shahnameh
- A long epic poen written by the persian poet Ferdowis it is the national epic of Irna and related societes
- The Shahnmeh tells mainly the mythical and to some extend the historical pastf of iran from the creation of the world until the Islamic religion
- It traces the historical links between the beginings of the religions with the death fo the last Zoroastrian ruler of Perisa during the Muslim conquest
Authors
- Amir Kord- Siar al-awha
- Ibn al-mugaffa- wrote many different things
- Abu Nuwas poet
Genres
- Folk tales, stage plays, poetry, short stories, novels, were the most popular ones.
Trade
Routes
- Spread Muslim culture into Europe, created the silk road
- many cities had their own good that they exported lead to ealth and poplularity
- Norht Africa acroos the Sahara into West Africa
Bank system
- They have a non-debt ased currency and Asset and investment based banking system
- Islam was the first sustem to iplement Ethical Banking
- Also, ivestment baking was created isntead of interest banking
Sakk
- Arabic name for financial certifcates equivalen to a band
- They are securities that are based with the islamic law
- Prohibit charging of interest
- fixed income
Who they Traded to
- Mamluks
- Attomans- main ones
- Safavids
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