Short Essay On Islamic Architecture

What is architecture

What is Islamic architecture

Terminology

Common interruption of Islamic architecture

History of Islamic archtecture

Islamic architecture today

Both the process and the product of planning, designing and constructing buildings.

A general term to describe buildings and other physical structures.

The art and science of designing buildings and (some) non-building structures.

The style of design and method of construction of buildings and other physical structures.

The knowledge of art, science & technology and humanity.

The practice of the architect.

The design activity of the architect, from the macro-level to the micro-level.

Can be define as a building traditions of Muslim populations of the Middle East and any

Umayyad Empire (661–750), in the Umayyad era many new elements were included to the Islamic architecture: Minarates, Arabisque, Mosaic, Luxury palaces.

Great Mosque at Cordoba.

Abd ar-Rahman III ordered a new minaret (9th century).

Al-Hakam II enlarged the plan of the building and enriched the mihrab (961).

Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir completion of the outer aisles and orange tree courtyard were (987).

The construction lasted for over two centuries, under the emir, Abd ar-Rahman.

The Mosque underwent numerous of subsequent changes.

Was captured from the moors by king ferdinand III of castile.

The Christians used it as a place of worship.

The Construction is now a cathedral (Mezquita) beginning in 785

The site previously is Roman temple.

Mosque was added inside by the Christian conquerers (13th century).

Characteristics:

Giant arches and its forest of over 856 of 1,293 columns of jasper, onyx, marble and

The Shirvan-Absheron school unlike Nakchivan style used stones instead of the bricks in the construction. At the same characteristics of this trend were the asymmetry and stone carving, which includes famous landmarks like Palace of the Shirvanshahs.

Timurid architecture is the pinnacle of Islamic architecture in Central Asia.

Timurid architecture started with the sanctuary of Ahmed Yasawi in present-day Kazakhstan and culminated in Timur's mausoleum Gur-e Amir in Samarkand.

The style is largely derived from Persian architecture.

Axial symmetry is a characteristic of all major Timurid structures, notably the Shah-e Zendah in Samarkand and the mosque of Gowhar Shad in Mashhad.

Double domes of various shapes abound, and the outsides are perfused with brilliant colors. was the last Sunni Islamic caliphate of the late medieval and the early modern era.

During the period of Ottoman growth, Ottoman rulers claimed caliphal authority since Murad I's conquest of Edirne in 1362.

Later Selim I, through conquering and unification of Muslim lands, became the defender of the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina which further strengthened the Ottoman claim to caliphate in the Muslim