Birth of Islam
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Birth of Islam
The birth of Muslim art can be attributed to the prophet Muhammad who God spoke within 610 according to Linda Komaroff in the birth of Islam. After hearing the voice of God through angel Gabriel, he began to recite just like the angel had told him, “Recite in the name of the lord…”. Muhammad lived between 570-632 A.D. His teachings and his first encounter with the angel were all codified as the present Quran Islam’s use (The Met, 2019). It explains how God Allah relates with his creation and how people will be judged at the end since Allah has given them free will. However, if Allah is not appropriately worshipped, Muhammad states there will be a judgement on the last day.
After the revelation, Mohamad continued with his journey to Mecca. Still, as a changed person and the people he came around with, he taught them about the encounter and through this, he founded the new religion, Islam. In Mecca, people did not accept him and his religion as it was a city and a shrine dedicated to pagan gods. Later, he convinced the people of the religion, and the Arabs there accepted it and began practicing the new faith. After he died in 632 A.D., four caliphs succeeded him, and through them, Islam continued to grow (The Met, 2019). From the Arabian Peninsula, Islam continued to grow. The first instance of art expression in the Islam world was through calligraphy as the Quran text was beautified and transformed to become an essential Islamic ornament. Muhammed’s house in medina because the prototype of a mosque can be attributed to the birth is Islamic architecture. The early style was called a hypostyle mosque, and it had a columned hall that faced Mecca and a courtyard surrounded by a colonnade. Call for prayer was done from the minaret, which was the rooftop at that time. The most important parts of the mosque were the pulpit and prayer niche (mihrab), which all faced Mecca.
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The Met (2019). Metmuseum.org. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/isla/hd_isla.htm
