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  2. Islamic geometric patterns - Wikipedia

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    Major Western collections hold many objects of widely varying materials with Islamic geometric patterns. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London holds at least 283 such objects, of materials including wallpaper, carved wood, inlaid wood, tin- or lead-glazed earthenware, brass, stucco, glass, woven silk, ivory, and pen or pencil drawings. [55]

  3. Aniconism in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Muhammad's physical appearance, however, is amply described, particularly in the traditions on his life and deeds recorded in the biographies known as Sirah Rasul Allah. Of no less interest is the validity of sightings of holy personages made during dreams. Titus Burckhardt sums up the role of aniconism in Islamic aesthetics as follows:

  4. Girih - Wikipedia

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    A periodic tiling of the plane is the regular repetition of a "unit cell", in the manner of a wallpaper, without any gaps. Such tilings can be seen as a two-dimensional crystal, and because of the crystallographic restriction theorem , the unit cell is restricted to a rotational symmetry of 2-fold, 3-fold, 4-fold, and 6-fold.

  5. Tree of life (Quran) - Wikipedia

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    The Tree of Immortality, Palace of Shaki Khans, Azerbaijan The Tree of Immortality (Arabic: شَجَرَةُ الْخُلْد, romanized: šajara al-ḫuld) is the tree of life motif as it appears in the Quran.

  6. File:Allah.svg - Wikipedia

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    Arabic word for Allah, the word for god in Arabic. Used commonly by Muslims. Items portrayed in this file depicts. media type. image/svg+xml. checksum ...

  7. Allah Bakhsh (painter) - Wikipedia

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    Ustad Allah Bakhsh (c. 1895 – 18 October 1978; sometimes spelled Allah Bux or Allah Bukhsh) was a Pakistani painter and calligrapher who was actively involved in aesthetics and classical landscape paintings throughout his life. He produced his work in British India before partition and in Pakistan after split of Indian subcontinent

  8. Algorithmic art - Wikipedia

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    Islamic geometric patterns such as this girih tiling in the Darb-e Imam shrine in Isfahan, are precursors of algorithmic art. [3]Roman Verostko argues that Islamic geometric patterns are constructed using algorithms, as are Italian Renaissance paintings which make use of mathematical techniques, in particular linear perspective and proportion.

  9. Names of God in Islam - Wikipedia

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    99 Names of Allah No. Arabic Reference Romanization Translation Narrators Al-Tirmidhi Ibn Majah Al-Hakim Ibn Mandah Ibn Hazm Ibn al-Arabi Ibn al-Wazir Ibn Hajar Al-Bayhaqi Ibn Uthaymeen Al-Ridhwani Al-Ghasn Ibn Nasir Ibn Wahf Al-Abbad; 1 الله Q1:1: Allāh Allah Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2 الرحمن Q1:1 ...