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Islamic Art
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/22/2009

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Koran page, 9th/10th century, ink and gold on vellum
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Ewer shaped as a Bird, creator: Sulyaman, 796, Iran
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Great Mosque at Cordoba Spain, 8th-11th century
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Ceiling of Great Mosque at Cordoba, Spain, 8th-11th century
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Maqsura of Great Mosque at Cordoba, Spain

Cordoba III, Al-Hakam II, 961-65

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Great Mosque at Damascus, Syria 706-715, for Al-Walid
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Facade of Great Mosque at Damascus, Syria

706-715, Al-Walid

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Great Mosque at Kairouan, Tunisia

836-75, Abbasid dynasty

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Great Mosque at Kerouian, Tunisia, 836-75
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Malwiya Minaret, Great Mosque of Samarra, Iraq, 848-52
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Great Mosque Isfahan, Aerial view, Isfahan, Iran, 11th/17th century
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Muqarna of the Great Mosque, Isfahan, Iran, 11th/17th C.
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Aerial view Great Mosque Cordoba, Spain, 8th-11th century
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detailed floor plan, of the great mosque of Cordoba spain, 8th-11th century
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Mosque, Edirne, Turkey, Sinan (architect), Sultan Selim II (patron) 1568-71
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Mihrab from Madrasa, Imami, Isfahan, Iran, 1345
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Koran/Qur’an
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The holy book of the Islamic faith
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Surahs
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a chapter of the Koran, divided into verses
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Hijra
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The Flight of Muhammed from Mecca to Medina in 622, the year from which Islam dates its beginnings
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Caliph/Caliphate
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Islamic Ruler’s considered successors of Muhammed
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Kaaba/Ka’ba
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Arabic Cube. A small cubic building in Mecca, Islamic world’s symbolic centre.
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Mecca
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Where Mohammad was born, a holy city for Muslims
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Medina
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The “city of the prophet”, where Mohammad went after exile
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Mosque
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The Islamic building for Collective worship. From the Arabic word masjid, meaning “a place for bowing down”
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Hypostyle hall
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A hall with a roof supported by columns.
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Qibla
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the direction (toward Mecca) Muslims face when praying (the qibla wall is the wall in this direction)
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Mihrab
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semi-circular niche set into the qibla wall of a mosque
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Minaret
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a distinctive feature of mosque architecture, a tower from which the faithful are called to worship
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Minbar
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the pulpit on which an imam stands in a mosque (usually steps up to a platform)
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Maqsura
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a screened area in front of the mihrab reserved for the ruler (in some mosques)
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Friday Mosque
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A city’s main mosque designed to accommodate the entire Muslim population for Friday noon prayer (prayer can occur on any day of the week, thus Friday implies communal prayer)
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Iwan
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In Islamic architechture: a vaulted rectangular recess opening onto a courtyard
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Muhaqqaq
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a cursive style of Islamic calligraphy
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Muqarnas
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stucco decorations of Islamic buildings in which stalactite forms break a structure’s solidity
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Animated Naskhi
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A type of stylized Arabic script/calligraphy that uses faces at the end of characters
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