CONCEPTS OF ART IN ISLAM

TAWHIDI PERCEPTION

▪Art is developed to produce a person

who is good and having sound
characters.
▪The concept must lead towards tawhid
and subservience to Allah swt.
▪Motive of art is to achieve ma’ruf,
halalness and akhlaq.
▪It is also a tool for taqwa.
 PRINCIPLES OF ISLAMIC ART

▪Raise human dignity along the values of the

environment. Environment becomes the
gallery.
▪Focus on elements of akhlaq and
rightiousness in the aspects of esthetics,
humanity and moral.
▪Relates beauties with authenticity of the
Islamic values itself.
▪Derives from the wahyu as one of the
sources.
▪Interconnects human with Allah, environment
and other creations.
 FUNCTIONS OF ISLAMIC ART

▪Raise awareness on relationship of

environment with Creator, spiritual and
physical world.
▪Instill the element of khusu’ to Allah and
tranquility in the spiritual aspect of
human self. “Art is for Allah”.
▪Instill taqwa and iman.
▪Enhance the intellectual capacity and not
just emotion.
SCOPE OF ISLAMIC ART

▪KHAT
▪LITERATURE
▪TEXTILES
▪CARPETS
▪MOSQUE
ARCHITECTURES
▪MUSICS
SCOPE OF ISLAMIC ART

▪KHAT
➢Khat Kufi
➢Khat Thuluth
➢Khat Nasakh
➢Khat Farisi
➢Khat Riq’ah
➢Khat Diwani
➢Khat Diwani Jali
➢Khat Raihani
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▪LITERATURE

➢Poetry
➢Prosa
➢Stories from al-Quran
➢Kab al-Ahbar ( Jewish Muslim)
➢Qasidah
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▪TEXTILES
▪TEXTILES
 SCOPE OF ISLAMIC ART

▪CARPETS
 SCOPE OF ISLAMIC ART
▪MOSQUE
ARCHITECTURES
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▪MUSICS
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