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Because of its long history of building and re-building, spanning the time from the Abbasids to the Qajar dynasty, and its excellent state of conservation, the Jameh Mosque of Isfahan provides an overview over the experiments Islamic architects conducted with complicated vaulting structures.
Contemporary mosque architecture often involves features characteristic to both the traditional and the modern. This can involve incorporating traditional Islamic geometric patterns in a modern, abstracted form or blending regional architectural styles with modernist or postmodernist design principles. [7]
[7] [8] In Islamic culture, the patterns are believed to be the bridge to the spiritual realm, the instrument to purify the mind and the soul. [9] David Wade [b] states that "Much of the art of Islam, whether in architecture, ceramics, textiles or books, is the art of decoration – which is to say, of transformation."
According to D. Fairchild Ruggles, it is "a magnificent site that evokes historic Islamic gardens in its powerful geometries, sunken garden beds, Mamluk-style polychromatic stonework, axial water channels, and playing fountains, all interpreted in a subdued modern design." As a modern park, it was built as part of a larger urban scheme ...
[1] [2] Scholarly references on Islamic architecture often refer to this architectural tradition in terms such as architecture of the Islamic West [2] [1] [3] or architecture of the Western Islamic lands. [4] [5] [3] The use of the term "Moorish" comes from the historical Western European designation of the Muslim inhabitants of these regions ...
A major tourist attraction in Pakistan, the mosque is a contemporary and influential piece of Islamic architecture. [4] Famous spots like the Faisal Mosque, a masterpiece of modern Islamic architecture, and the Pakistan Monument, which represents the country’s cultural history, add to the city’s charm. [4] [5]
Umayyad architecture developed in the Umayyad Caliphate between 661 and 750, primarily in its heartlands of Syria and Palestine.It drew extensively on the architecture of older Middle Eastern and Mediterranean civilizations including the Sassanian Empire and especially the Byzantine Empire, but introduced innovations in decoration and form.
It is found in the architecture of Morocco, the architecture of Algeria, early Islamic sites in Tunisia, and in the historic monuments of al-Andalus (in the Iberian Peninsula). From the 14th century onwards, zellij became a standard decorative element along lower walls, in fountains and pools, on minarets , and for the paving of floors.