Islamic Ornaments Research Articles

Issue of Formation of Early Islamic Ornament on the Example of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, the First Half of the 8th Century

Issue of Formation of Early Islamic Ornament on the Example of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, the First Half of the 8th Century

Ethnomathematics Exploration of Islamic Ornaments of the Mataram State Islamic University Building

The aim of this research is to determine the ethnomathematics elements in the Islamic ornament design of building B FTK UIN Mataram. This research is a type of qualitative descriptive research. Data on ethnomathematics elements in the Islamic ornament design of building B FTK UIN Mataram was taken using observation and documentation techniques. The object in this research is the Islamic ornaments of building B FTK UIN Mataram. All data were analyzed using qualitative descriptive with the Miles and Huberman model. The results of the research are that there are ethnomathematics aspects in the Islamic ornaments of building B, Faculty of Tarbiah and Teacher Training, Mataram State Islamic University. This can be seen from the geometric concepts of flat shapes and spatial shapes such as rectangles, hexagons, hexagrams, blocks and tubes. Then there are the concepts of transformation geometry such as translation, reflection and rotation

The effect of islamic ornament as secondary skin on daylight quality

Abstract Islamic ornaments are used extensively in different types of buildings, serving both aesthetic and functional purposes. They are used in mosques, offices and other buildings, serving as both interior and exterior elements. One application is their use as secondary skins to cover window openings. This research investigates the effect of Islamic ornaments as secondary skins on interior lighting. The main question addressed is how Islamic ornaments affect the quality of natural lighting. Using computer simulations, scenarios with clear glass and varying ornament distance from the window were assessed under clear sky conditions at different times of the day. The results show that the presence of Islamic ornaments significantly reduces the average daylighting level on interior surfaces compared to scenarios without ornaments. Visual representations using ray diagrams and computer-generated images illustrate the effects of varying ornamental conditions. This research highlights the potential of Islamic ornaments to improve the quality of daylighting in architecture. The findings emphasise their role in optimising daylight indoors, and encourage careful consideration of the impact of spacing on window openings. In particular, the distribution of daylight varies between rooms orientated to the north and west.

Waterfront developments and engineered canals in the UAE

Engineered canals and waterfront developments as a means to revitalize aging riverfront and coastal areas, dominated until the mid-thirties by industrial buildings and warehouses, have been at the forefront of many American and European cities. Urban revitalization is accomplished after prolonged public participation and has succeeded to transform abandoned areas to healthy public spaces, renovating old warehouses and industrial buildings to apartments with water views, and keeping alive the historical memory of a city. In contrast, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), most of these waterfront developments, such as Al-Qana, a recent project in Abu Dhabi promote forms of modern, spectacular architecture that project a sense of departure from tradition, local culture and architecture. This is also visible in the area around the Dubai canal, which has opted for a modern development on its banks, replacing parts of an existing open park. A project that diverges from such an approach is the two-decades old waterfront project in the city of Sharjah, UAE. Al-Qasba in Sharjah aimed for a more balanced approach, intertwining new architectural forms with hybridized Islamic ornaments. The current article analyzes these three UAE waterfront development projects, focusing on the one in Abu Dhabi. In order to assess the water quality in these engineered canals on the long term we created simulation waterflow models using 2D Finite Element Surface Water Modelling System (FESWMS). Our hydrodynamic modeling results indicate that water velocities in some canals was better than others. Furthermore, on the long-term Al-Qana may require mechanical means in order to maintain healthy waterflow conditions.

Review: Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds: Studies in Honour of Erica Cruikshank Dodd, edited by Evanthia Baboula and Lesley Jessop

Review: <i>Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds: Studies in Honour of Erica Cruikshank Dodd</i>, edited by Evanthia Baboula and Lesley Jessop

Spiritual Aesthetics of Islamic Ornamentation and the Aesthetic Value in Islamic Architecture

Islamic architecture, a form of Islamic art, contributes significantly to portraying God Almighty's supremacy. In Islamic art, there are numerous ways to place emphasis on this architecture; one of which is through high aesthetic value. In Islamic art and architecture, the greatest extent of ornamentation and motifs probably describe aesthetic values. Islamic ornamentation serves as a platform for delivering information about Islam's culture including Islamic values and identity. Additionally, the most distinguishing characteristic of Islamic ornamentation is the richness of meaning behind it, that might influence a person's perception of spiritual aesthetics. Therefore, this article explore what spiritual aesthetic means and how it relates to Islamic ornamentation. Furthermore, Islamic ornamentation should be considered a part of the interior of the Islamic architecture rather than just decorations added after the fact or to cover in gaps. Through the interplay of the people and interior space, these ornaments have the potential to engage with human aesthetics. Therefore, this research also focuses on the aesthetics and beauty of ornaments, which satisfy one of human psychological needs: to be in a beautiful environment. Because emphasis of the research is to explore how people perceive the aesthetics of Islamic ornamentation, a semiotics method was chosen because of its capacity to transcend literal meanings. The identification and evaluation of the aesthetic and religious qualities of the Islamic ornamentation brought out in this paper can be very helpful for the artists as well as scholars in understanding the Islamic art. &#x0D; Keywords: Islamic Ornaments, Islamic Architecture, Aesthetic Value, Spiritual Aesthetics, Islamic Art, Architectural Ornaments

Revisiting the Reception of Islamic Ornament and Color in the West

Revisiting the Reception of Islamic Ornament and Color in the West

Sensuousness Space: Internalizing Islamic Geometrical Ornament found in National Mosque

This project seeks to identify the fundamental form of Islamic geometrical patterns found in the National Mosque. The internalization from the subject and visit helps to produce an installation sculpture. The sculpting process uses plywood as the primary material and is formed by using mathematical methods and woodworking as the approach. The work presents in installation as it potentially delivers a sense of sacredness towards the audience. Therefore, this study explores the chronology of artmaking inspired by the hidden form and its foundation in Islamic ornament and reviews how its complexity creates a sense of sacredness towards the atmosphere of human psychology. Keywords: Sensuousness Space, Islamic Geometrical Ornament, National Mosque, Installation eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning &amp; Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6iSI6.3042

Intelligent Restoration of Historical Parametric Geometric Patterns by Zernike Moments and Neural Networks

Historical Islamic ornaments include a fantastic treasury of geometric and mathematical algorithms. Inevitably, restoration of these ornaments in periodic patterns consisting of repeated elements has been faced following and substituting the other available similar ingredients instead of vanished parts. Still, the prediction of parametric, quasi, or non-periodic patterns, where components are not identical, needs to be carried out in a more challenging process than the periodic ones due to shape, scale, or angle of rotation alteration. Intelligent restoration could facilitate the forecasting of damaged parts in such geometric patterns that an algorithm has changed their geometric characteristics. In some architectural heritage, geometric patterns include a parametric algorithm like parametric patterns in the ceiling of Sheikh Lotfollahmosque in Isfahan, Iran, and the dominant structure of Persian domes Karbandi. In this article, the aim is to propose a new method for the smart restoration of the parametric geometric patterns in which, by having access to the image of the existing patterns, the vanished parts could be reconstructed spontaneously. Our approach is based on image processing by detecting boundaries of deterioration, finding every individual element, and extracting features of detected individual patterns via Zernike moments. The order of individual patterns starts from the farthest pattern to detected deterioration. Then by creating a time series, the Back-propagation neural network would be trained by extracted features, and the vanished patterns’ features could be predicted and reconstructed. Eventually, the reconstructed and real patterns are compared to determine differences between them by mean-squared error and to evaluate the performance of our method. To validate the process, a parametric geometric pattern is designed by the assumption that some parts are disappeared. The proposed method’s results, in this case, hold an efficient performance with the accuracy of 92.99%. Furthermore, Sheikh Lotfollah’s patterns and Naseredin Mirza mansion’s patterns as two real cases are tested by the proposed method, representing reliable and suitable performance results.

ГЕОМЕТРИЧНИЙ ОРНАМЕНТ В ІСЛАМСЬКОМУ МИСТЕЦТВІ: ТРАДИЦІЇ, ОСОБЛИВОСТІ, СКЛАДОВІ

Purpose of the article аnalyze the features of Islamic geometric ornament as a historical and at the same time modern artistic phenomenon, its formation, development, traditional structural elements. Methodology. General scientific research methods, chronological and historical ‒ comparative, figurative-stylistic, semantic, and theoretical-art history analysis are applied. Results. The features of the historical development of geometric ornament in the countries of Islam, its national, historical, mental, figurative, artistic features are analyzed. Recognized in the world as a unique work of art, Islamic geometric ornament is known for its compositional construction which consists of simple elements (circle, square, triangle). Then by connecting and repeating the shapes according to a certain grid pattern, a complex pattern (hexagon, octagon, star pattern) is created. The richness of the artistic culture of Islam is embodied in the range of its variants. It was found that the geometric ornament, which is the main decorative element on numerous objects, embodies a deep spiritual content. Geometric Islamic ornament embodies thousands of years of creative practice that has become traditional in the Arab East. At the same time, in the modern world, Muslim ornamental traditions remain relevant and reveal opportunities for introducing the acquired artistic experience of the Arab countries into new creative practices, including graphic design. Scientific novelty consists in determining the place and significance of Islamic geometric ornament in modern cultural and historical processes, taking into account its traditional aesthetic, substantial, structural and compositional content. Practical significance. The proposed research expands the understanding of the possibilities of using the traditions of Islamic ornament in modern creative practices. The results can be used in design practice.

Aporia in Umayyad Art or the Degree Zero of the Visual Forms’ Meaning in Early Islam

Abstract This article re-examines the established findings about Umayyad art as a transitional production essentially anchored in the Western and Eastern Late Antique traditions that have inspired it. It argues instead that the Umayyads brought about an aesthetic revolution laying out the foundations of what has become known as “Islamic ornament,” a predominantly aniconic art form. An epistemological shift from art history to critical inquiry allows us to show that, beyond the adaptive borrowing of pre-existing forms, the Umayyads redefined the art’s condition of meaning based on an unprecedented attitude to images and visual discourse informed by Islamic ontotheology and logocentric metaphysics.

Parametric methods for constructing the Islamic ornament

The article discusses the method of algorithmic construction of Islamic ornaments, which can be used as a decorative element in architectural design. Two necessary stages are highlighted in the generation of an ornamental motif by means of algorithmic design – the first includes operations on a base mesh consisting of a combination of regular or semiregular cells, for example, drawing rays from the centers of the edges of the original lattice or rotating figures relative to its nodes; the second stage involves the creation of a basic pattern of the ornamental design that fits into a regular or semi-regular polygon, and the decorative motif in the figure is made up of a primitive that is symmetrically reflected relative to any lines, usually rays, emanating from opposite corners of the polygon. The paper analyses the traditional patterns of Islamic ornaments, on the basis of which new designs were built, using visual programming tools (Rhino and Grasshopper).

Some aspects of the addition of ideological and artistic programs of Islamic ornament in relation to the decor of the Umayyad interiors of Qasr Al-Mushatta and Qusayr Amra in Jordan

Some aspects of the addition of ideological and artistic programs of Islamic ornament in relation to the decor of the Umayyad interiors of Qasr Al-Mushatta and Qusayr Amra in Jordan

The Dome in Contemporary Monuments of the UAE between Tradition and Postmodernity

Recently constructed cultural and religious complexes in Abu Dhabi display the clear references to Islamic ornament and the ‘dome’ as a symbolic element. Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque best manifests this through its cascade of domes and ornament. The Grand Mosque has become one of the most visited spaces in the city, which necessitated the creation of a processional underground route to organize its visitation process. Another example is Qasr Al Watan, which recently, in 2019, opened to the public, its white domes and Islamic ornament render it a popular site of visitation. The palatial complex has been equipped with a tourist center, gift shop and buses that transport its visitors. Qasr Al Watan’s domes, arches and ornaments are constructed with to reflect on known historical precedents. Taken together with Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque and the Emirates Palace, they reflect a comeback of postmodernism in Abu Dhabi. This paper focuses on cultural/religious buildings that exhibit ‘Domes’ and Islamic ornament with clear references to the historical precedents.

LANDSCAPE INTERVENTION DESIGN STRATEGY WITH APPLICATION OF ISLAMIC ORNAMENTATION AT TRUNOJOYO PARK MALANG, JAWA TIMUR, INDONESIA

Trunojoyo Park in Malang City is one of the city parks that has a predicate as the best park. The government of Malang city supports this park into a city park that must be visited by the tourists. The problem is trunojoyo park requires a direction of future development by looking at the perception of visitors who visit the park. The purpose of this study is to know the direction of the new design to find the appropriate design criteria in relation to one's response from the perceptions seen. The architectural intervention in the landscape is one way of approaching how to view the perception in the realm of architectural design. In two ways: temporary intervention and permanent intervention, this method looks at how one's response perceives the architectural element as an aesthetic element in which there is an Islamic ornament as one of the objects applied. This study used descriptive research through field observations by giving random questionnaires that were divided into men and women. Analysis and discussion are done by sorting and calculating each variable of choice of the respondent quantitative). They were further evaluated to determine the factors of visitor perception assessment of aesthetics Park City. This study shows that the order and diversity of vegetation, completeness of facilities, security, and comfort of the Park City are the factors of assessment of visitors to the aesthetics of the Park City. This research has benefited from the emergence of new theories regarding the visitor's assessment of the aesthetic City Park.

IMPLEMENTASI PENGINTEGRASIAN KEISLAMAN DALAM PENGENALAN KONSEP MATEMATIKA ANAK USIA DINI

The purpose of this study is to describe the implementation of Islamic integration in introducing mathematical concepts in early childhood. This research uses descriptive qualitative. Subjects were Assakinah's Integrated Islamic Kindergarten B children and the informants in this study were teachers and school principals. Data validity techniques in this study used triangulation and used reference materials. The results of research on the implementation of Islamic integration in the introduction of mathematical concepts to children B Integrated Islamic Kindergarten is to get children to read basmalah before starting the process of training mathematics learning and acquiring with hamdalah, introducing study programs using Hijri guidelines, introducing children to children - the story of mathematical figures in Islamic civilization, introducing Islamic ornaments in the concept of geometry, introducing associations through the use of Islamic terms and names, and using the method of playing in algebra.

Parametric Design as a contemporary design solution for the Islamic Ornaments

Islamic decorative art is one of the most artworks that depends on mathematical drawing systems that shape its decorative units, by constructed them its geometric grids, placed and generated based on certain modular with continuous generative systems. These complex geometrical formations needed time and effort in the past, now a day with CAD (Computer-Aided Design) programs and latest digital techniques, opened a new era of modern Islamic Arts. This research will deal with one of these contemporary digital techniques is the “Parametric Design Method”, characterized by its modular system and generative design method. The research focuses on how parametric thinking had emerged in Islamic patterns before the modern digital scientific revolution and generative design programming discovered. And how this mathematical way of inspired many orientalists, artists, and designers in their artworks over art timeline. Hence, there was intellectual compatibility between both sides; the Parametric method and Islamic decorations, especially after the emergence of the use of parametric thought and the spread of its artistic applications. The main issue that the research monitored is; designers emphasized the common points that combine Islamic art and modern digital techniques and methods by using parametric programming and apply in designs derived from the Islamic heritage to the surrounding environment, without deep analytical parametric study. In this context, the research presents some points in design methodology based on descriptive analysis, which shows how it is important to use digital techniques for developing the design process with a deep analytical study of the generative modular as well as the ornament itself. The research deals with four main points; Firstly: the study of the parametric design definition. Secondly: the emergence of using parametric thinking with any inspiration from Islamic patterns in both; design phase, and applied phase. Thirdly: the importance of programming and digital techniques and how to form a contemporary design derived from an Islamic perspective. Fourthly: a presentation of some contemporary applications of parametric Islamic decorations with a deep analytical understanding of Islamic patterns. In conclusion, the purpose of this research, in general, is to emphasize our need to return to the cultural art heritage, and how to derive from it to do contemporary designs using modern digital technology, in order to do development in the design process.

Conetext of Artistic Dimensions in the Ornaments of Imam Ali Holy Shrine

The paper is aimed to study the Conetext of artistic dimensions in the ornaments of Imam Ali Holy Shrine; the study included four chapters, the first chapter about the problem statement identified by the following questioning: What are the artistic dimensions in Conetext of Imam Ali Holy Shrines? Then the significance of the study and the need for it, and the goal came to find out the Conetext of artistic dimensions in the ornaments of Imam Ali Holy Shrines, and then the study identified the substantive, temporal and spatial boundaries, as well as the definition of terms that are related to the study. The literature review Chapter 2 included the ornaments functions and its aesthetic as well as the expression in these ornaments, the Chapter concluded of some benchmarks. As for the Third Chapter, the researcher has applied a descriptive analytical method. The population was 103 models; while sampling was %20 according to appropriate research justifications. The most outstanding search results: The Muslim artist adopted on porcelain material as it has a construction function, as well as its aesthetic dimension in order to remove the sizing and search for flatness which leads eventually to abstract. Also, the most important conclusion was: The functional dimension in the ornaments of Imam Ali Holy Shrines is supported by accurate structural machine which depends on stylistic shaping of the elements and principles that achieve aesthetic or structural purpose. The researcher offered some important recommendations and proposals such as: Studying of structural design system of Islamic ornaments in the Holy Shrines.

Modern art color concepts in upholstery textile printing designs inspired by Islamic art

This research deals with enriching the Aesthetic values of color in designs of printed furniture fabrics by a new color scheme for Islamic motifs in the light of modern art color application of the color separation which based on scientific theories emerged by the pioneers of impressionists from the beginning of the last century and how did that achieve a radical change in the artists vision of artwork formulation that which could be a rich source to innovate artistic designs for modern furniture. Hence the research question is how to benefit from the modern art color concept of chromatic dispersion in achieving a modern color scheme for Islamic ornaments to enrich the aesthetic values of color in designs of printed furniture fabrics? The study aims to achieve new aspect of color in printed fabric design by a new color scheme for Islamic motifs derived from the technique of color dispersion used in modern art.

How symmetry in Islamic ornaments can be relevant to introduce symmetry in crystallography teaching

How symmetry in Islamic ornaments can be relevant to introduce symmetry in crystallography teaching