It has become a reality in the world of contemporary visual media that images and visual texts engage viewers and researchers with their differences and similarities—in a real or imagined way—while also constantly connecting them to other texts and encouraging them to discover and examine an intratextual relationship and interaction. Due to the different social, cultural, and political roles an...

Calligraphy was very important from the beginning in Islamic civilization because of the Rasm of the Holy Quran. The presence and application of the Kufic script, as one of the most common forms of calligraphy in the early Islamic age, with its own visual and conceptual features in the Greek churches and monasteries of the tenth and eleventh centuries (fourth and fifth centuries (AH)) raises ma...

When we look at and compare examples of hitherto known traditional arts, we come across many linguistic, expressive, and even formal differences. Giving the mere title of “traditional” to the works produced in the Islamic era and even earlier is due to the failure to consider and explain a high art period in the Persian art; a period to incorporate a number of such works and to exclude them fro...

“Thematic commentary of Quran” is one of the Islamic M’arif lessons that are studied by BA students of all majors. Designing a proper syllabus for this lesson plays a pivotal role in realization of its purposes; therefore, it should be appropriate to the students’ needs and characteristics. This study attempts to propose a syllabus for the lesson thematic commentary of Quran appropriate to the ...

Art criticism, defined as informed dialogue about the work of art, and an attempt to elucidate its meaning, is an activity based on principles, methodologies, procedures and theoretical frameworks which altogether make the practice of criticism possible. There are various, and mainly subjective, approaches to the art criticism practice. This variety makes it remarkably difficult to elicit and d...