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Art Test 3
chapter 8
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
11/29/2011

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mecca
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the place were all islams must go at least once in there life and it was were muhammad went to found the religion 
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islam (submission to god)
Definition
is a religion 
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muhammad
Definition
the founder of islam
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hijira
Definition
the bigining for islam
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quran
Definition
the book with all the stories for the islam
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caliph
Definition
successor to the prophet
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muslim
Definition
the people that believe in the religion of islam
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allah
Definition
god
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muhammad founder of islam

 

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570-632
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hiraja from mecca to medina

 

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622
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muhammads return to mecca destruction of idols

 

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630
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constatinople falls to the ottoman turk

 

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1453
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kaaba
Definition
the symbolic center of the islamic world
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mosque
Definition
a church for islam
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mihrab
Definition
entrance
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qibla wall
Definition
the wall that faces to mecca
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minaret
Definition
large tower
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muqarna
Definition
the dome shap at the ceiling of islamic architecture
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sultan
Definition
the islamic language
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madrasa
Definition
college for religious and legal studies
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iwan
Definition
large vaulted halls with rectangular plans and monumental arhed openings
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kufic
Definition
an angular arabic script
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sinan
Definition
an achitect
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enamel
Definition
a hard mineralized surface
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minbar
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the stand were a leader stand to deliver sermon
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aniconism
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avoidance of figural imagary

 

meaning no other god

 

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ambulatories
Definition
the covered passage around a hall of a church
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ablaq masonry
Definition
a wall with alot of constracting colors
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joggled voussoirs
Definition
interlocking stones to form an arch with different colors like a puzzle
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cut tile
Definition
tiles cut to make a perfect portrait
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chini khana
Definition
look like cabinet in panels of niches
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horseshoe arch
Definition
looks more like a circle then an arch
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round arch
Definition
the typical arch
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pointed arch
Definition
meet in the middle
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keel arch
Definition
goes straight up then makes turns and keeps on going staight till it meets in the middle
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mamluk
Definition
a soldier of slave origin
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lusterware
Definition
pottery with a metallic glaze
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parchment
Definition
treated animal skin used as paper
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vellum
Definition
a much finer animal skin
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tugras
Definition
a form of writing
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tapestry
Definition
textile art on a veritcal loom
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