ART 3020 East Tennessee State University Week 3 Knowledge of Islamic Art Paper

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This essay does not in any way attend to the questions asked in the assignment.To complete this essay you must read our textbook The Islamic World and you must watch The Hidden Art of Islam available on Kanopy.After viewing this film and reading the textbook, reflect on the arts of Islam. Summarize what you learned from both the film and the text. How and why do Muslims create such revolutionary art forms? How did the readings and the films change or enhance your knowledge about Islamic art? How do these so-called “decorative” arts differ in form and expression from the contemporary decorative arts in the modern Western world?https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00JP5MVV2/…that link to go to amazon and rent HD $3.99 to watch video.Please compose a 2 – 3 page essay, double-spaced, 12 pt font and upload to the dropbox link under .

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This essay does not in any way attend to the questions asked in the assignment.
To complete this essay you must read our textbook The Islamic World and you must watch The
Hidden Art of Islam available on Kanopy.
After viewing this film and reading the textbook, reflect on the arts of Islam. Summarize what
you learned from both the film and the text.
How and why do Muslims create such revolutionary art forms?
How did the readings and the films change or enhance your knowledge about Islamic art?
How do these so-called “decorative” arts differ in form and expression from the contemporary
decorative arts in the modern Western world?

that link to go to amazon and rent HD $3.99 to watch video.
Please compose a 2 – 3 page essay, double-spaced, 12 pt font and upload to the dropbox link
under .
Córdoba, Great Mosque interior.
Map of The Islamic World
Ka’ba, Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Photograph 2005.
[Fig. 2.1]
Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem. 687–92 CE.
With marbles and mosaics on the exterior from the Ottoman period (1281–1924).
[Fig. 2.2]
Mosaics inside the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem. 691–92 CE.
[Fig. 2.3]
Reconstructed plan of the House of the Prophet, Medina. 624 CE.
[Fig. 2.4]
Portion of a mosaic from the western portico, the Great Mosque. Damascus, Syria.
c. 705–14 CE.
[Fig. 2.5]
Detail of the façade of the palace at Mshatta, Jordan. c. 743 CE.
[Fig. 2.6]
Prayer Hall. Great Mosque, Córdoba. Begun 784–86 CE.
[Fig. 2.7]
Dome in front of mihrab, Great Mosque, Córdoba. 965 CE.
[Fig. 2.8]
Court of the Lions, Palace of the Lions, Alhambra, Granada. Completed c. 1380 CE.
[Fig. 2.9]
Aerial view of the Great Mosque, Samarra, with minaret in foreground. 847–61 CE. [Fig.
2.10]
Folio from a Qur’an on vellum. 9th–early 10th century.
8-3/8 × 11-1/8’’ (21.27 × 28.25 cm).
[Fig. 2.11]
Abu Zayd and Al-Harith Questioning Villagers. Leaf from a manuscript
of al-Hariri’s Maqamat. 1237.
Vellum, 13-3/4 × 10-1/4” [Fig. 2.12]
Great Congregational Mosque (Masjid-i-Jumah), Isfahan, south iwan.
Main construction 11th—12th centuries.
[Fig. 2.13]
Ardashir Captures Ardavan, from a copy of the Shahnama (“Book of Kings”) by Firdawsi.
Ilkhanid dynasty, c. 1335–40.
Detached folio, ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. 23-5/16 × 15-5/8”
[Fig. 2.14]
The Registan, Samarqand, Uzbekistan. The madrasa of Ulughbeg (1417–20) on the left,
the Tilakari (Gilded) madrasa-mosque (1646–60), center, and the madrasa of Shirdar
(House of the Lion) (1618–35/6).
[Fig. 2.15]
Bihzad, The Seduction of Yusuf, from Sa’di, Bustan. Herat. 1488.
12 × 8-1/2”
[Fig. 2.16]
Shaykhi, Bahram Gur in the Green Pavilion, from Nizami, Khamsa. Tabriz. 1480s.
8-5/8 × 5-5/8” [Fig. 2.17]

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