"History is a mirror of the past and a lesson for the present." Persian Proverb

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Islamic Arts

• "History is a mirror of the past and a lesson for
  the present."(Persian Proverb)

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Important Dates

• 570 The birth of the Prophet Muhammad ( Peace Be
  Upon Him).
• 595 The Prophet Muhammad ( Peace Be Upon Him)
  married for the first time.
• 610 The Prophet Muhammad ( Peace Be Upon Him)
  heard the Divine call to "recite" lines from the
  Holy Qur'an.
• 614 Jerusalem was conquered by the Sassanids.
• 622 The Prophet Muhammad ( Peace Be Upon Him) and
  his disciples emigrated to the city of Yathrib
  (now it is Medina in the Arabian Peninsula).The
  beginning of the Islamic era, the hegira.
• 629 The last pilgrimage of the Prophet Muhammad
  (Peace Be Upon Him) to the city of Mekka.
• 632 The Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) died
  in the city of Medina.
• 634 The beginning of Arab Expansion conquest of
  Palestine and Syria.
• 635 The Arabs cross the Euphrates.
• 640 Capture of Egypt.
• 641 Capture of Nineveh and Armenia.
• 642 The Arab expansion reached Persia.
• 644 - 656 The Caliph Othman Ibn Affan succeeded
  Omar Ibn Al-Khattab.
• 644 Capture of Persia.

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"God is Beautiful and Loves Beauty"

• The Prophet said of Islam some 1400 years ago.
• Such prophetic sayings (hadiths) have provided
  the impetus for Muslims' embellishment and
  beautification of their places of worship, homes,
  and even of articles in common use in everyday
  life.

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ISLAMIC PATTERNS GEOMETRY
Geometric motifs were popular with Islamic
artists and designers in all parts of the world,
for decorating almost every surface, whether
walls or floors, pots or lamps, book covers or
textiles. As Islam spread from nation to nation
and region to region, Islamic artists combined
their penchant for geometry with existing
traditions, creating a new and distinctive
Islamic art. This art expressed the logic and
order inherent in the Islamic vision of the
universe.
The development of this new distinctive art, in
part may have been due to the discouragement of
images in Islam on basis that it could lead to
idolatry. For the Muslim, in recognising the
reality of the fundamental formula of Islam
"There is no divinity other than God".
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Islam began in early seventh century in Arabia
and quickly spread throughout the Middle East.
Before the following century Islam had already
spread to Byzantium, Persia, Africa, Europe and
some parts of Asia, where many people converted
to Islam. In its first thousand years, from the
revelations to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) to the
great Islamic empires of the eighteenth, Islamic
civilization flourished. While Europeans suffered
through the Dark Ages, Muslims in such cities as
Jerusalem, Damascus, Alexandria, Fez, Tunis,
Cairo, and Baghdad made remarkable advances in
philosophy, science, medicine, literature, and
art.
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