The Drawings of Mythical Animals in Islamic Architecture and Arts

The Drawings of Mythical Animals in Islamic Architecture and Arts

Mahmoud Ahmed Darwish

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KS OmniScriptum Publishing
Año de edición:
2023
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Filosofía occidental: antigua, hasta c. 500
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9786205521878
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This book of deals with the drawings of mythical animals on buildings and applied Islamic artifacts, especially the drawings of the dragon, which spread in a way that attracts attention, whether on buildings or on various arts.The book revolves around several axes, including defining the mythical animals that Muslims used as decorative elements, as well as the mythical animals in Islamic art, where drawings of the phoenix (simurgh), the bird with a human face, drawings of birds with human heads, the winged horse, and the eagle (griffon) that appeared in two pictures: the first is in the form of a winged animal with a bird’s head, two wings, a long neck and a bird’s head, and the winged animal with a human head, the two-headed eagle, dragon shapes, birds’ drawings, and facing dragons forms, along with the sirenah or mermaid.The research dealt with the element of the dragon on Islamic artifacts, the definition of the dragon, and its transfer to Islamic arts on stones, marble, metal artifacts, ceramics, textiles and carpets, in addition to the pictures of manuscripts, such as Mughal and Timurid pictures, and Safavid pictures.

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