Artwork and Architecture of the Muslim Empire
- BUI words
- Calligraphy - a type of visual art related to writing
- Arabesque - an ornamental design of intertwined flowing lines found in decorations
- Artwork
- the Muslimes used artwork to reflect their cultural values
- Allah is the center of the Muslims so they also did a lot of their artwork based on the idea of him
- they repeated a lot of things in art (geometric designs) which is called arabesque.
- Art in Religion
- the Muslims people did art in floral and shaped designs because they thought basing artwork off of people was s sin and was forbidden in the Qur'an
- Architecture
- the first buildings that were built in the Islamic Empire were designed by Greek architects
- because the Greeks were building Islamic mosques and not Christian churches, they were able to experiment with different designs
- through this they created a new Islamic style
- in the late 700s AD, the new Arab rulers marked their territory by building great mosques such as the Kairouan.
- Kairouan
- a mosque which would be like our churches
- Math Used - Geometry
- they used shaped to build architecture (buildings)
- Spherical Trigonometry was also used to create right triangles
- they used the binomial theorem to help them build pyramids
- Famous Buildings
- the sacred mosque is located in the city of Mecca, It's a place where Muslims went to worship
- it was also called Al-Masjid al-Haram
- it is a Quadrangle surrounded by stone walls
- Dome of Rock
- Muslim temple in Jerusalem
- the Dome of the Rock is in the center of a greater Muslim shrine, known as the Haram ash Sharif (Noble Sanctuary).
- Muslim Calligraphy
- Cursive styles were easier to write and read and soon replaced the earlier geometric style
- based on Arabic Script
- Calligraphy is the most respected form of Islamic art
- the Arabic Script was the means of transmission to the Quran
Muslim Empire Math
- Al-Khwarizmi
- he was born before 780 in Baghdad, Iraq and died before 850. He was a mathematician and astronomer who invented the Hindu-Arabic numerals and the concepts of algebra. He lives in Baghdad under the caliphate of al-Ma'mun
- Ibn Al-Haytham
- first scientist and the father of optics
- born in Basra, Iraq in 965
- made great contributions to science
- name "the physicist" in medieval Europe
- most famous work was Kitab al-Manazir (book of optics)
- Book of Optics by Ibn Al-Haytham
- seven volume book on the experiments that Ibn performed on the theories of optics
- Astronomy
- they found a huge amount of stars
- Aldebaran
- altair
- Muslims pray before daybreak and before dawn
- predict planetary positions and eclipses
- they found a huge amount of stars
- al-jabr
- it means algebra. it refers to the process of moving a subtracted quantity to the other side of an equations. If you looked at al-jabr's book it would look nothing like the algebra we do today. It is written in prose. Non of the symbols we use today are in the book.
- Optics
- Kitb - al-Manazir: the book of Optics
- written by a man known as Alhazen
- invention of the camera
- Alhazen created system for adding the first natural 100 numbers
- Kitb - al-Manazir: the book of Optics
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