HUMAN VALUES IN ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

Many studies and researches have been performed in the field of Islamic architecture, but it has been noticed that human values in this field of studies have not get much concern. This means that there is a need to review Islamic architecture in light of cultural and environmental features not to enrich controversial debate between originality and modernity, but to throw light on human values which are included in the architectural works of Islamic Architecture that has been spread in all over the whole world. This paper aims to study the human values that have been attained through Islamic Architecture according to Islamic teachings from the source of the Islamic law Sharia represented in the Holy Quran and Sauna which accomplished happiness and comfort for mankind everywhere. The paper consists of three parts; the first part aims to identify the concept of human values and its role in the field of architecture and construction, through the second part it's possible to recognize the sources of architectural thinking in Islam, and the third part presents an analysis of human values in Islamic architecture. The search comes to approve that Islamic architecture attained human values from the pacific ocean eastward to the Atlantic ocean westward, and from Andalusia and Turkey northward to middle and South Africa southward through the last fourteen centuries