Islamic Arts

Islamic art is a term used to describe artworks influenced by Islamic cultures including architecture, painting, calligraphy, pottery and metalwork. So, characteristics of this kind of art are often defined by the philosophies of Islam.

This is an example of pottery with the Arabic word at the center of the disk means Allah.

Instead of depicting human figure like in Christian art, in some Muslim cultures such as Arab Islamic Art, depictions of human being are forbidden. This reason leads to the lack of portraits in Islamic art even portraits of the Prophet Muhammad.

An example of geometric designs:

Islamic art is mainly focus on Allah, and as Allah cannot be represented by pictures, Muslims usually uses geometric designs to symbolize him. Another important branches of Islamic art is Arabic calligraphy which is used to express the beauty in the verse of Qur'an.

These are 2 example of Arabic calligraphy which are Diwani and Farsi fonts.



References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Arts
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http://tallis.umd.edu/~pfeifer/turkey/images/I/13