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Can I request a source? I suggest you read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Geometric-Concepts-in-Islamic-Art/dp/0905906659 http://www.amazon.com/Geometric-Con

• dogma1138 11y ago
  Sri Yantra and Mandala predate Islam. And I suggest you read too, the changes in "styles" of "Islamic Art" can be directly correlated to the Islamic expansion especially in SE Asia and Maritime Asia. Islamic art is not only religious art it's for the most part all art that was created in the Islamic world; not art that was created by Muslims. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-islam/beginners-guide-islamic/a/arts-of-the-islamic-world https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-islam/beginners-g... Quite a bit of it was attributed to Muslims but it was done incorrectly, Islam banned any use of human figures in art so local art styles which were already highly abstract and geometrical had to be evolve into purely abstract art. So medieval Muslims were big patrons of Arts in their time but Islamic Art on it's own is not "Islamic" in a religious or (monolithic) cultural sense.
  • typon 11y ago
    I have no idea what you're arguing anymore. Your essentially agreeing with me. Islamic art is highly abstract and geometric DIRECTLY as a result of Islamic theology and Islamic rule over lands in the middle east and the rest of the world. I never said all art originated due to the introduction of Islam. Islamic art is evolved from Roman, Greek and Sasanian art before it, and highly modified by Islamic artists' tendency for math and geometry. It seems you have some agenda you're trying to push here. What im saying is pretty indisputable.