Is there Islamic Architecture?

[idiamindada]

Note that DOME is not a product of Islamic civilization.

it's originated from ROME (Roman Empire) and Eastern Roman (Byzantine).

So, Turkey deserve that dome with pendentive system as it was born there!



Pendentive system in dome invention by the byzantium.

[idiamindada]

Originally Posted by end2012

Taj Mahal borrow from many places - Pietra-Dura inlay from Italy, Dome from Persia, Carving, aesthetic plan and proportion from India....etc.

Purpose is Islamic tomb, but many different borrowings.

seems that very clear you don't have knowledge in architecture.

[luci203]

Mosque in China.

[guy4versa4]

that is mosque in china-with chinese temple architecture(pagoda)

[Cyrus]

An Islamic building in Isfahan, 2nd cultural capital of Islamic world after Mecca: (!!!!!)

[end2012]

That is not Islamic it is Christian Church with Persian architecture. Similarly the China mosque is Chinese architecture.

[guy4versa4]

that is no islamic architecture..animal and human figure are not allowed in islamic pattern..i think that building have mixed architecture,the geometric and the floral motif in mosaic is very islamic style,while animal and human figure are not

[Cyrus]

Originally Posted by end2012

That is not Islamic it is Christian Church with Persian architecture. Similarly the China mosque is Chinese architecture.

Of course, I meant the same thing, an ancient Persian building, hundreds years before Islam:

[guy4versa4]

you all condem islamic architecture,u said its all from west,copy from this,steal from that and bla bla.....how about mcd architecture?that is totally unnessary..and totally mess up

[end2012]

I do not condemn anything. If somebody say : "This is Christian architecture" then I would say the same thing that there is nothing like "Christian" architecture.

[KWT]

I think Cyrus thinks this is a rhetorical question, so I'm not sure why he's even bothering to ask people if he thinks he knows the answer. Unless this is just a thinly veiled pretext to convey obvious contemptuous sentiments. Against whom does he harbor this contempt? I can only take a wild guess LOL.

Cyrus, do you propose we change the name from Islamic architecture to Persian architecture because some regions of the Abbassid Empire (mainly Iran and modern-day Iraq) had Sassanian influences? Should we change the name of Roman, Baroque and Renaissance architecture to Greek architecture? Because, you know, they borrowed a lot more from Greece than "Islamic" architecture did from the Sassanians. Actually the Greeks borrowed from even earlier civilizations and developed their own unique architecture. This sort of thing happens everywhere, but nobody makes a big deal out of it. Only when it comes to Islamic architecture do people like you start saying preposterous things like (I'm paraphrasing here) "Islamic architecture doesn't exist...everything is Persian" or some other moron says "the Taj Mahal is Italian and Hindu". Ridiculous.

If you have a problem with the nomenclature, then give us an alternative (please don't say Persian, because you're gonna put your foot in your mouth). But obviously you don't give a shit about that because by posting this thread you think you're doing some sort of "service" to Persian culture.

[end2012]

Are you calling me moron? Pietra-Dura inlay is developed in Italy and borrowed by Indian to use in Taj Mahal. If you do not believe then find out before saying moron.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietra_dura

Who is real moron now?

[guy4versa4]

pietra dura is a term for the technique of using cut and fitted, highly-polished colored stones to create images. It is considered a decorative art..its a technique bro..not architecture style..the motif of tajmahal is still islamic motif with geometri and flower patern,its only using a technique from rome..i think u still dont no the diffrent between architecture style and decorative..

[KWT]

Originally Posted by end2012

Are you calling me moron? Pietra-Dura inlay is developed in Italy and borrowed by Indian to use in Taj Mahal. If you do not believe then find out before saying moron.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietra_dura

Who is real moron now?

Mhhhmm

[KWT]

I think I've said all I have to say about this.

[end2012]

Originally Posted by guy4versa4

pietra dura is a term for the technique of using cut and fitted, highly-polished colored stones to create images. It is considered a decorative art..its a technique bro..not architecture style..the motif of tajmahal is still islamic motif with geometri and flower patern,its only using a technique from rome..i think u still dont no the diffrent between architecture style and decorative..

Flower pattern used in Italy Pietra-Dura style also:






Taj (Indian interpretation) Pietra Dura:

[guy4versa4]

most of islamic architecture have floral motif,its because islamic forbid to used animal and human figure in any kind of shape,its not copying from rome..but this the only patern allowed in islamic world
tokapi palace

islamic art center malaysia

old Quran

islamic floral mosaic

putra mosque

[end2012]

^That is Persian tile decoration, which develop before Islamic era. True that Islam forbid images so use a lot of floral decoration, but it borrow the technique from Persia.

http://www.iranchamber.com/art/artic...e_history1.php

[tpe]

Islamic Art is necessarily defined as the art of the Moslem Empires and Civilizations that were a direct response to the inspiration of the Islamic religion.

A similar statement can be made about Christian Art. For example, the Christian Nestorian Art in China has very little in common stylistically with the Christian Art of Europe, or the Christian art of Egypt. But thematically and iconographically, they have similarities, naturally. They all come under the general terminology of "Christian Art". "Christian Art" does not mean having one style or one aesthetic/architectural school of thought.

Like Christian Art, Islamic Art is heterogeneous.

Still, one can identify key/major influences in what is called Classical Islamic Art. They are:

* The Art of Greater Persia (from Sassanian to the Caliphate to Savafid, and beyond).
* The Timurid and Turkic Central Asian Flowering.
* Islamic Art of the Greater Mediterranean (this includes the Islamic response to the Greco-Roman, Byzantine and Egyptian and North African aesthetic.)

These are what constitute the heartland of Classical Islamic Art.

[hadeer992]

I think the mosques represent the true Islamic architecture, which usually consist of domes and minarets