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Islam
By: Hailey Featherstone, Emily Sibley, Erin Ford, Catie Dawson
Islam
Islam means submission to GodArab scholars laid the foundations of arithmitic and algebraIslamic art made an impact on western medieval artTaj Mahal is an Islamic mausoleum
Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, 687-692
Interior of the Dome of the Rock
San Vitale, Ravenna
Great Mosque, Damascus, Syria
Great Mosque, Damascus, Syria
Mosaic in courtyard, Great Mosque of Damascus
Frieze of the Umayyad palace, Mshatta, Jordan 740-750
Great Mosque, Kairouan, Tunisia
Malwiya minaret of the Great Mosque, Samarra, Iraq
Great Mosque, Samarra, Iraq
Mausoleum of the Samanids, Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Great Mosque, Cordoba, Spain, 8th to 10th centuries
Great Mosque, Cordoba
• Cordoba was the capital of the Spanish Umayyads
• Influenced the Christian west• The Great mosque
• One of the largest in the Islamic west
• Caliph al-Hakam II
Great Mosque, Cordoba, Spain
Maquarnas dome, Hall of the Two Sisters, Alhambra palace, Granada, Spain, 1354-1391
Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain
Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain
Sultan Hasan, Cairo, Egypt 1356
Sultan Hasan, Cairo, Egypt 1356
Sinan, Mosque of Selim II, Edrine, Turkey, 1568-1575
Sinan interior
Sinan interior
Great Mosque, Isfahan, Iran
Shahi Mosque, Isfahan, Iran
Mihrab from the Madrasa Imami, Isfahan, Iran 1354
Maqsud of KashanArdabil, Iran1540
Sultan-MuhammadTabriz, Iran 1525-1535
From the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp
Canteen with episodes from the life of Christ, from Syria 1240-1250
Timeline
• 570 – Birth of Muhammad• 642 - Muslim conquest of Lower Egypt • 711 – Muslim armies enter Spain• 762 – Abbasids found Baghdad• 1099 – First Crusade captures Jerusalem• 1281 – Ottoman empire founded• 1492 – Fall of Granada to the Christians