Topic > Origin of Islamic art - 594

Islamic art was born in the Arabian peninsula, with the Umayyad dynasty in the years 661-750, and at the same time through its leaders it dispersed for the conquest of Persia, Egypt, North Africa and even the Iberian Peninsula. Islamic art is an original art, which has been able to reinterpret the different influences received during the process of its formation, such as classical, Byzantine arts or the different traditions of those nomadic peoples. The Qur'anic prohibition on representing God influenced the evolution of various artistic disciplines, developing above all in closely related architecture and decoration. Mozzati (2010) shows us that Islam is a religion characterized absolutely and uncompromisingly by monotheism, endowed with a radical and unitary vision of the world, being indifferent to the historical, social, cultural and radical particularities of their adherents. Islam and its language, which is Arabic, constituted a powerful union of various cultural traditions, composing a very homogeneous combination that informed a wide scale of civilization, as well as the spiritual and political experience that millions of people had in different countries. Each language gradually developed into art and custom, although already recognized with an Islamic identity, each acquired its individual character over time. The Islamic Religion Those who have the Islamic religion as a profession always have as their legacy that "There is no other God." but God and Muhammad who is his prophet. You need to say these words in front of two witnesses and you automatically become a Muslim, of course after becoming a Muslim you have to continue to follow everything that is instilled in Muslims. The term "Allah" derives from the Arab-Semitic root 'lh which means "divinity" obviously in a generic sense, in Arabic the word Al-ilah means the One God. The doctrine of the omnipotence and absolute freedom of Allah has led to the concept that the world was created and is continuously created by God. The Five Pillars of Islam Every individual who becomes a Muslim must fulfill the five primary obligations or better known as The pillars of Islam faith are as follows: The first is the Shahadah, which is the first pillar of Islam, in this obligation or first pillar Muslims testify to the oneness of God, reciting "There is no God in apart from God and Muhammad He is the messenger of God.