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Fundamental of Islamic Ornament in Geometrical Art
Fundamental of Islamic Ornament in Geometrical Art

Abstract
Islamic ornament is underlying the pictorial or an icon. It 's inspirational is from nature like stars, moon, trees and etc. Islam stricly does not allow arts in form of living things such as human and animal. In order to inhibit worshipping idol other than worshipping Allah subahanahuwataala. Basically the art of
Islam can define as merge of science and mathematics learnings. In this content we will be more focing on geometry form and how an arc growth.
Keywords: pictorial, icon, form, geometric,and arc.
1. Introduction
Islamic Ornament can be categorized in 3 different ways. There are geometric patterns, stylized forms and the arabesques. Based on Anness Publishing (2010) Islamic artist created images that were erither stylized or abstract, geometric, visibily unreal. (Anness Publishing ,2010).
Islamic Ornament more focusing on the nature art. It creates visibly unreal objects that came from analyzing texture of God creation which is Allah s.w.t. This is prove from hadith Sahih AlBukhari.
Narrated Said bin Abu Al-Hasan: While I was with Ibn 'Abbas a man came and said, "O father of 'Abbas! My sustenance is from my manual profession and I make these

pictures."

Ibn

'Abbas said, "I will tell you only what I heard from Allah 's Apostle . I heard

him

'Whoever makes a picture will be punished by Allah till he puts life in it,

and

never be able to put life in it. ' " Hearing this, that man heaved a sigh and his

face

pale. Ibn 'Abbas said to him, "What a pity! If you insist on making pictures I

advise you to

saying, he will turned make pictures of trees and any other unanimated objects." (Sahih Al- Bukhari , Hadith: 428,
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Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: I heard Muhammad saying, "Whoever makes a picture in this

world

will be asked to put life into it on the Day of Resurrection, but he will not be able to do so."
(Sahih



References: 6.1 Books Keith Critclow.(1976).Islamic Pattern An Analitycal Cosmological Approach.Great Britain: Schocken Book. Pepin van Roojen.(2010).Turkish Designs.Singapore: The Pepin Press. Otto G. Ocvirk, Robert E.Stinson, Philip R. Wigg, Robert O. Bone and David L. Cyaton. (2013). Art Fundamental Theory and Practice. Singapore: McGraw-Hill Education (Asia) 6.2 Magazine Annes Publishing.(2010). The Complete Illustrated Guide to Islamic Art and Architecture.United Arab Emirates

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