Islamic art

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Muraqqa

A Muraqqa (Turkish: Murakka, Arabic: مورّقة‎, Persian: مُرَقّع‎) is an album in book form containing Islamic miniature paintings and specimens…

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Mughal painting

Mughal paintings are a particular style of South Asian painting, generally confined to miniatures either as book illustrations or as…

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Chinese influences on Islamic pottery

Chinese influences on Islamic pottery cover a period starting from at least the 8th century CE to the 19th century.…

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Zellige

Zellige (Arabic: الزليج‎; also zelige or zellij) is mosaic tilework made from individually chiseled geometric tiles set into a plaster…

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Yeseria

Yeseria is a technique of carving plaster used by the Spanish Moors like also by the post-Reconsquista's Mudéjar architecture. Plaster…

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Mosque lamp

Mosque lamps of glass, enamelled and often with gilding, survive in considerable numbers from the Islamic art of the Middle…

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Mocárabe

Mocárabe, Honeycomb work, or Stalactite work (Arabic al-halimat al-'uliya, "the overhang") is an ornamental design used in certain types of…

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Islamic interlace patterns

Interlacing patterns are patterns of lines and shapes that have traditionally dominated Islamic art. They can be broadly divided into…

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Arabic calligraphy

Arabic calligraphy is the art and design of writing in various languages that use Arabic letters. Arabic writing is characterized…

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Islamic calligraphy

Islamic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy, based upon the alphabet in the lands sharing a common…

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Girih tiles

Girih tiles are a set of five tiles that were used in the creation of Islamic geometric patterns using strapwork…

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Girih

Girih (Persian: گره‎, "knot") is a decorative Islamic geometric artform used in architecture and handicraft objects, consisting of angled lines…

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Banna’i

In Iranian architecture, banna'i (Persian: بنائی‎, "builder's technique" in Persian) is an architectural decorative art in which glazed tiles are…

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Iwan in architecture

An iwan (Persian: ایوان‎ eyvān, Arabic: إيوان‎ Iwan, also spelled ivan, Turkish: eyvan) is a rectangular hall or space, usually…

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Islamic influences on Western art

Islamic influences on Western art refers to the influence of Islamic art, the artistic production in the Islamic world from…

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