islam spread rapidly after its founding, encompassing much of north africa, the middle east, and southeast asia. the art of this vast region draws its distinctive character both from islam itself and from the diverse cultural traditions of the world’s muslims. because islam discouraged the use of figurative images, particularly in religious contexts- unlike christian art- islamic artists develo...

Challenges for the study of Islamic architecture include its abundance and diversity in expression and its classification based on distinct functional or stylistic types. We address these issues by presenting shape grammars as a methodology for the analysis and design generation of Islamic architecture, with a specific example in the form of a parametric shape grammar for central Asian caravans...

“Learning organization” is one of the famous organizational theories and approaches to organizational development and empirical researches have been done on its implementation and application in various sectors and cultural settings. This paper explores the concept of learning organization from an Islamic perspective following an interest in applying the concept in all types of organization. A ...

Abstract It is supposed to have three art components by giving an Islamic identity: geometric, floral, and calligraphy. Putrajaya created present the city in Malaysia. The are highly applied buildings' motif ornamentations. However, element of calligraphy missing overall features patterns. Therefore, this study aims identify Putrajaya's administrative public buildings. Then, analyze decorative ...

Eighty percent of the population in the developing world relies on traditional medicine, and 70-80% of the population in developed countries utilized complementary therapies. Though a vibrant healing tradition pervades modern life in the Arab and Muslim world, no clear definition or model exists to organize it's multiple and intertwined elements . We define Traditional Arabic and Islamic Medici...

It is argued that a Bitcoin-style money-like informational commodity may constitute an effective instrument for the further development of Islamic Finance. The argument involves the following elements: (i) an application of circulation theory to Bitcoin with the objective to establish the implausibility of interest payment in connection with Bitcoin, (ii) viewing a Bitcoin-like system as a mone...

Malay intangible heritage went through numerous stages in its evolution and shaped by an amalgamation of various influences; one of which was the Malay-Polynesian belief system with a strong animistic base. The later emergence of Islam introduced new customs and practices where old manteras or incantations are sprinkled with Islamic names and supplications to Islamize, so as to legitimize the r...

many of scholars think that the term of style has two types: verbal style and semantic style. since the meaning of style in islamic approach is different from  that of  western approach, so we have too many different definitions of style. undoubtedly the elements of literary style also are different in islamic approach from the western approach. meanwhile the effective elements in islamic liter...

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