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Islamic Patterns - An Analytical and Cosmological Approach (Paperback)
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For centuries the nature and meaning of Islamic art has been
misunderstood in the West, being regarded as no more than
decoration. But in fact the abstract art of Islam represents the
sophisticated development of a supra-naturalistic tradition, since
the portrayal of human and animal forms has always been discouraged
by the Prophet Muhammad, so as to avoid idolatry. Hence, among the
world's great artistic traditions, Islamic art has maintained its
singular integrity and inner content with the least diversion from
its aim: the affirmation of unity as expressed in diversity. The
Pythagorean/Platonic doctrines are easily recognizable in the body
of Islamic geometric art, as the wisdom of this practice was
exalted by Socrates, in Plato's Republic dialogue (527), when he
specifically gave the reason for practising geometry. Its practice
rekindled the inner organ (or eye of wisdom) by which alone we can
see the truth. The geometrical patterns of Islamic art reveal to
the eye of the sensitive onlooker the intrinsic cosmological laws
affecting all Creation. The primary function of these patterns is
to lead the mind from the literal and mundane world towards the
underlying permanent reality. The numerous sequential drawings show
how the art of Islam is inseparable from the science of
mathematics. Thus, we can see clearly how an Earth-centred -
'common-sense' - view of the cosmos gives renewed signficance to
the number patterns produced by the orbits of the planets,
correlating the cosmos as experienced by man with the patterns
created in Islamic art, and thereby throwing new light on the
perennial symbolic significance of number. The mathematical
tessellations inherent in space-filling patterns are revealed as an
essential practical and philosophical basis for the creation of
each completed work of art - whether a tile, a carpet, a wall or an
entire building - and thus affirm the underlying essential unity of
all things.
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