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| “Arab-like.” A flowing, intricate pattern derived from stylized organic motifs, usually floral; generally, an Islamic decorative motif. |
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| A series of arches supported by piers or columns. |
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| An artwork constructed from already existing objects. |
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| In ancient Greek architecture, the lowest part of Ionic and Corinthian columns. |
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| Blind arcade (A.K.A. Wall Arcade) |
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| An arcade having no actual openings, applied as decoration to a wall surface. |
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| Muslim rulers, regarded as successors of Muhammad. |
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| Greek, “beautiful writing.” Handwriting or penmanship, especially elegant writing as a decorative art. |
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| A type of polychrome tilework used in decorating Islamic buildings. |
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| The flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622, the year from which Islam dates its beginnings. |
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| A hall with a roof supported by columns. |
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| In Islam, the leader of collective worship. |
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| In Islamic architecture, a vaulted rectangular recess opening onto a courtyard. |
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| Arabic, “cube.” A small cubical building in Mecca, the Muslim world’s symbolic center. |
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| Islam’s sacred book, composed of surahs (chapters) divided into verses. |
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| An early form of Arabic script, characterized by angularity, with the uprights forming almost right angles with the baseline. |
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| An Islamic theological college adjoining and often containing a mosque. |
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| Designer of the carpet for the funerary mosque of Shakyh Safi al-Din, Ardabil, Iran, 1540. |
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| In some mosques, a screened area in front of the mihrab reserved for a ruler. |
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| In painting, pottery, and photography, a dull finish. |
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| A semicircular niche set into the qibla wall of an mosque. |
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| A distinctive feature of mosque architecture, a tower from which the faithful are called to worship. |
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| In a mosque, the pulpit on which the imam stands. |
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| Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces (tesserae) of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors; also, the technique of making such works. |
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| An Islamic decorative technique in which large ceramic panels are fired, cut into smaller pieces, and set in plaster. |
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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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| Designed the brass basin from Egypt inlaid with gold and silver, ca. 1300. |
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| A cursive style of Islamic calligraphy |
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| Stucco decorations of Islamic buildings in which stalactite-like forms break a structure’s solidity. |
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| The diagonal rib of a Gothic vault; a pointed, or Gothic, arch. |
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| A narrow arch of pointed profile, in contrast to a semicircular arch. |
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| The direction (toward Mecca) Muslims face when praying. |
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| An Ottoman Turkish design of sinuous curved leaves and blossoms. |
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(b. 1489 CE - d. 1588 CE) Mimar Koca Sinan, the "Great Architect Sinan."
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| (b. 1494 CE - d. 1566 CE) "Sulayman the Magnificent" Ottonian sultan from 1520 CE - 1566 CE. |
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| Created folio 20 verso of the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp, from Tabriz, Iran, ca. 1525-1530. |
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| Collection of the Prophet Muhammad’s moral sayings and descriptions of his deeds. |
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| Chapters of the Koran, divided into verses. |
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| Ornamental stonework for holding stained glass in place, characteristic of Gothic cathedrals. In plate tracery the glass fills only the “punched holes” in the heavy ornamental stonework. In bar tracery the stained-glass windows fill almost the entire opening, and the stonework is unobtrusive. |
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