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136 relations: Abbasid architecture, Abbasid Caliphate, Afghanistan, Agra, Akbar's tomb, Al-Andalus, Al-Attarine Madrasa, Al-Salih Tala'i Mosque, Alcázar of Seville, Alfonso XI of Castile, Algeria, Alhambra, Aljafería, Almohad Caliphate, Almoravid dynasty, Almoravid Qubba, Ancient history, Ancient Near East, Arabesque, Bahri Mamluks, Balkh, Bou Inania Madrasa, Byzantine Empire, Cairo, Carbon black, Córdoba, Spain, Central Asia, Cinnabar, Classical antiquity, Clay, Crown of Castile, Dado (architecture), Deccan Plateau, Early Muslim conquests, Egypt, El Mechouar Palace, Emirate of Granada, Fatimid architecture, Fatimid Caliphate, Figurative art, Gesso, Gothic art, Granada, Great Mosque of Tlemcen, Great Seljuk architecture, Greater Iran, Greco-Roman world, Grille (architecture), Gypsum, Haji Piyada, ... Expand index (86 more) »
- Arabic art
- Plaster sculptures
Abbasid architecture
Abbasid architecture developed in the Abbasid Caliphate between 750 and 1227, primarily in its heartland of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Abbasid architecture are Arabic architecture.
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Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
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Agra
Agra is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow.
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Akbar's tomb
Akbar's tomb is the mausoleum of the third and greatest Mughal emperor Akbar.
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Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Al-Attarine Madrasa
The Al-Attarine Madrasa or Medersa al-Attarine is a madrasa in Fes, Morocco, near the Al-Qarawiyyin Mosque.
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Al-Salih Tala'i Mosque
The Mosque of al-Salih Tala'i (مسجد الصالح طلائع) is a late Fatimid-era mosque built by the vizier Tala'i ibn Ruzzik in 1160.
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Alcázar of Seville
The Alcázar of Seville, officially called Royal Alcázar of Seville (Real Alcázar de Sevilla or Reales Alcázares de Sevilla), is a historic royal palace in Seville, Spain.
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Alfonso XI of Castile
Alfonso XI (11 August 131126 March 1350), called the Avenger (el Justiciero), was King of Castile and León.
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Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
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Alhambra
The Alhambra (translit) is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain.
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Aljafería
The Aljafería Palace (Palacio de la Aljafería; قصر الجعفرية, tr. Qaṣr al-Jaʿfariyah) is a fortified medieval palace built during the second half of the 11th century in the Taifa of Zaragoza in Al-Andalus, present day Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain.
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Almohad Caliphate
The Almohad Caliphate (خِلَافَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِينَ or دَوْلَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِينَ or ٱلدَّوْلَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِيَّةُ from unity of God) or Almohad Empire was a North African Berber Muslim empire founded in the 12th century.
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Almoravid dynasty
The Almoravid dynasty (lit) was a Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco.
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Almoravid Qubba
The Almoravid Qubba, also known as the Qubba al-Ba'diyyin or Qubba al-Barudiyyin, is a small monument in Marrakesh, Morocco.
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Ancient history
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity.
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Ancient Near East
The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, southeast Turkey, southwest Iran, and northeastern Syria), ancient Egypt, ancient Persia (Elam, Media, Parthia, and Persis), Anatolia and the Armenian highlands (Turkey's Eastern Anatolia Region, Armenia, northwestern Iran, southern Georgia, and western Azerbaijan), the Levant (modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus) and the Arabian Peninsula.
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Arabesque
The arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines, often combined with other elements. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and arabesque are Arabic architecture, Arabic art, Islamic architectural elements and Islamic art.
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Bahri Mamluks
The Bahri Mamluks (translit), sometimes referred to as the Bahri dynasty, were the rulers of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt from 1250 to 1382, following the Ayyubid dynasty.
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Balkh
Balkh is a town in the Balkh Province of Afghanistan, about northwest of the provincial capital, Mazar-e Sharif, and some south of the Amu Darya river and the Uzbekistan border.
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Bou Inania Madrasa
The Bou Inania Madrasa or Bu 'Inaniya Madrasa is a madrasa in Fes, Morocco, built in 1350–55 CE by Abu Inan Faris.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Cairo
Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.
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Carbon black
Carbon black (with subtypes acetylene black, channel black, furnace black, lamp black and thermal black) is a material produced by the incomplete combustion of coal tar, vegetable matter, or petroleum products, including fuel oil, fluid catalytic cracking tar, and ethylene cracking in a limited supply of air.
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Córdoba, Spain
Córdoba, or sometimes Cordova, is a city in Andalusia, Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba.
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Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
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Cinnabar
Cinnabar, or cinnabarite, also known as mercurblende is the bright scarlet to brick-red form of mercury(II) sulfide (HgS).
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Classical antiquity
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.
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Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).
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Crown of Castile
The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then Castilian king, Ferdinand III, to the vacant Leonese throne.
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Dado (architecture)
In architecture, the dado is the lower part of a wall, below the dado rail and above the skirting board.
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Deccan Plateau
The Deccan is a large plateau and region of the Indian subcontinent located between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, and is loosely defined as the peninsular region between these ranges that is south of the Narmada River.
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Early Muslim conquests
The early Muslim conquests or early Islamic conquests (translit), also known as the Arab conquests, were initiated in the 7th century by Muhammad, the founder of Islam.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
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El Mechouar Palace
Mechouar Palace (قصر المشور) or the Zianide Royal Palace is the former official residence of the Zayyanid dynasty in the city of Tlemcen, Algeria.
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Emirate of Granada
The Emirate of Granada, also known as the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, was an Islamic polity in the southern Iberian Peninsula during the Late Middle Ages, ruled by the Nasrid dynasty.
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Fatimid architecture
The Fatimid architecture that developed in the Fatimid Caliphate (909–1167 CE) of North Africa combined elements of eastern and western architecture, drawing on Abbasid architecture, Byzantine, Ancient Egyptian, Coptic architecture and North African traditions; it bridged early Islamic styles and the medieval architecture of the Mamluks of Egypt, introducing many innovations. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Fatimid architecture are Arabic architecture.
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Fatimid Caliphate
The Fatimid Caliphate or Fatimid Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Fāṭimiyya) was a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shia dynasty.
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Figurative art
Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational.
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Gesso
St. Martin of Tours, from St. Michael and All Angels Church, Lyndhurst, Hampshire Gesso ('chalk', from the gypsum, from γύψος), also known as "glue gesso" or "Italian gesso", is a white paint mixture used to coat rigid surfaces such as wooden painting panels or masonite as a permanent absorbent primer substrate for painting.
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Gothic art
Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century AD, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture.
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Granada
Granada is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.
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Great Mosque of Tlemcen
The Great Mosque of Tlemcen (الجامع الكبير لتلمسان, el-Jemaa el-Kebir litilimcen) is a major historic mosque in Tlemcen, Algeria.
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Great Seljuk architecture
Great Seljuk architecture, or simply Seljuk architecture, refers to building activity that took place under the Great Seljuk Empire (11th–12th centuries).
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Greater Iran
Greater Iran or Greater Persia (ایران بزرگ), also called the Iranosphere or the Persosphere, is an expression that denotes a wide socio-cultural region comprising parts of West Asia, the South Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, and East Asia (specifically Xinjiang)—all of which have been affected, to some degree, by the Iranian peoples and the Iranian languages.
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Greco-Roman world
The Greco-Roman civilization (also Greco-Roman culture or Greco-Latin culture; spelled Graeco-Roman in the Commonwealth), as understood by modern scholars and writers, includes the geographical regions and countries that culturally—and so historically—were directly and intimately influenced by the language, culture, government and religion of the Greeks and Romans.
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Grille (architecture)
A grille or grill (French word from Latin craticula, small grill) is an opening of several slits side-by-side in a wall, metal sheet or another barrier, usually to allow air or water to enter and/or leave and prevent larger objects (such as animals) from going in or out.
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Gypsum
Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula.
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Haji Piyada
Haji Piyada Mosque (ḤĀJI PIĀDA) or Noh Gonbad Mosque (مسجد نُهگنبد "Mosque of Nine Cupolas") is a historic building in Balkh province of northern Afghanistan.
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Heraldry
Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree.
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Hisham's Palace
Hisham's Palace (قصر هشام), also known as Khirbat al-Mafjar (خربة المفجر), is an important early Islamic archaeological site in the Palestinian city of Jericho, in the West Bank.
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Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.
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Ifriqiya
Ifriqiya, also known as al-Maghrib al-Adna (المغرب الأدنى), was a medieval historical region comprising today's Tunisia and eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania (roughly western Libya).
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Ilkhanate
The Ilkhanate or Il-khanate, ruled by the Il-Khans or Ilkhanids (translit), and known to the Mongols as Hülegü Ulus, was a Mongol khanate founded in the southwestern territories of the Mongol Empire.
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Imam Dur Mausoleum
The Imam Dur Mausoleum or Qubba Imam Al-Dur (قبة امامالدور) was a mausoleum in Iraq which dates back to the Uqaylid era.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Indo-Islamic architecture
Indo-Islamic architecture is the architecture of the Indian subcontinent produced by and for Islamic patrons and purposes.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
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Iranian architecture
Iranian architecture or Persian architecture (معمارى ایرانی, Me'māri e Irāni) is the architecture of Iran and parts of the rest of West Asia, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
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Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
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Islamic architecture
Islamic architecture comprises the architectural styles of buildings associated with Islam. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Islamic architecture are Islamic architectural elements and Islamic art.
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Islamic calligraphy
Islamic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy, in the languages which use Arabic alphabet or the alphabets derived from it. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Islamic calligraphy are Islamic architectural elements and Islamic art.
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Islamic geometric patterns
Islamic geometric patterns are one of the major forms of Islamic ornament, which tends to avoid using figurative images, as it is forbidden to create a representation of an important Islamic figure according to many holy scriptures. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Islamic geometric patterns are Islamic architectural elements and Islamic art.
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Islamic ornament
Islamic ornament is the use of decorative forms and patterns in Islamic art and Islamic architecture. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Islamic ornament are Islamic architectural elements and Islamic art.
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Jameh Mosque of Ardestan
The Jāmeh Mosque of Ardestan (مسجد جامع اردستان – Masjid-e-Jāmeh Ardestan) is a congregational mosque (Jāmeh) in Ardestan, in the province of Isfahan, Iran.
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Jameh Mosque of Isfahan
The Jāmeh Mosque of Isfahān or Jāme' Mosque of Isfahān (مسجد جامع اصفهان Masjid-e-Jāmeh Isfahān), also known as the Atiq Mosque (مسجد عتیق) and the Friday Mosque of Isfahān (مسجد جمعه), is a historic congregational mosque (Jāmeh) of Isfahan, Iran.
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Jericho
Jericho (Arīḥā,; Yərīḥō) is a city in the West Bank, Palestine; it is the administrative seat of the Jericho Governorate of Palestine.
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Juyushi Mosque
The Juyushi Mosque (lit) is a historic monument in Cairo, Egypt.
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Kairouan
Kairouan, also spelled El Qayrawān or Kairwan (al-Qayrawān, Qeirwān), is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Kairouan are Arabic architecture.
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Kingdom of Tlemcen
The Kingdom of Tlemcen or Zayyanid Kingdom of Tlemcen (الزيانيون) was a kingdom ruled by the Berber Zayyanid dynasty in what is now the northwest of Algeria.
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Kufic
The Kufic script (Romanized) is a style of Arabic script that gained prominence early on as a preferred script for Quran transcription and architectural decoration, and it has since become a reference and an archetype for a number of other Arabic scripts. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Kufic are Arabic art.
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Kutubiyya Mosque
The Kutubiyya Mosque or Koutoubia Mosque is the largest mosque in Marrakesh, Morocco.
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Lapis lazuli
Lapis lazuli, or lapis for short, is a deep-blue metamorphic rock used as a semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense color.
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Lime (material)
Lime is an inorganic material composed primarily of calcium oxides and hydroxides.
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Madrasa
Madrasa (also,; Arabic: مدرسة, pl. مدارس), sometimes transliterated as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary education or higher learning. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and madrasa are Arabic architecture.
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Madrasa of al-Nasir Muhammad
The Madrasa of al-Nasir Muhammad is a madrasa and mausoleum located in the Bayn al-Qasrayn area of al-Muizz street in Cairo, Egypt.
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Maghreb
The Maghreb (lit), also known as the Arab Maghreb (اَلْمَغْرِبُ الْعَرَبِيُّ) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of the Arab world.
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Malachite
Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral, with the formula Cu2CO3(OH)2.
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Mamluk Sultanate
The Mamluk Sultanate (translit), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries.
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Marinid Sultanate
The Marinid Sultanate was a Berber Muslim empire from the mid-13th to the 15th century which controlled present-day Morocco and, intermittently, other parts of North Africa (Algeria and Tunisia) and of the southern Iberian Peninsula (Spain) around Gibraltar.
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Marrakesh
Marrakesh or Marrakech (or; murrākuš) is the fourth-largest city in Morocco.
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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
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Mihrab
Mihrab (محراب,, pl. محاريب) is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca towards which Muslims should face when praying. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Mihrab are Islamic architectural elements.
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Mongol Empire
The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous empire in history.
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Moorish architecture
Moorish architecture is a style within Islamic architecture which developed in the western Islamic world, including al-Andalus (on the Iberian peninsula) and what is now Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia (part of the Maghreb). Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Moorish architecture are Arabic architecture.
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Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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Mosaic
A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface.
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Mosque of Ibn Tulun
The Mosque of Ibn Tulun (Masjid Ibn Ṭūlūn) is located in Cairo, Egypt.
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Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba
The Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba (Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba), officially known by its ecclesiastical name of Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption (Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción), is the cathedral of the Diocese of Córdoba dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and located in the Spanish region of Andalusia.
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Mudéjar art
Mudéjar art, or Mudéjar style, was a type of ornamentation and decoration used in the Iberian Christian kingdoms, primarily between the 13th and 16th centuries.
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Mughal architecture
Mughal architecture is the type of Indo-Islamic architecture developed by the Mughals in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries throughout the ever-changing extent of their empire in the Indian subcontinent.
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Muhammad III of Granada
Muhammad III (15 August 1257 – 21 January 1314) was the ruler of the Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula from 8 April 1302 until 14 March 1309, and a member of the Nasrid dynasty.
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Muqarnas
Muqarnas (مقرنص; مقرنس, or translit), also known in Iberian architecture as Mocárabe (from), is a form of three-dimensional decoration in Islamic architecture in which rows or tiers of niche-like elements are projected over others below. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Muqarnas are Arabic architecture and Islamic architectural elements.
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Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula
The Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, also known as the Arab conquest of Spain, by the Umayyad Caliphate occurred between approximately 711 and the 720s.
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Muslim world
The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah.
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Nasrid dynasty
The Nasrid dynasty (بنو نصر banū Naṣr or بنو الأحمر banū al-Aḥmar; Nazarí) was an Arab dynasty that ruled the Emirate of Granada from 1232 to 1492.
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Natanz
Natanz (نطنز) is a city in the Central District of Natanz County, Isfahan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
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National Museum of Damascus
The National Museum of Damascus (الْمَتْحَفُ الْوَطَنِيُّ بِدِمَشْقَ) is a museum in the heart of Damascus, Syria.
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North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
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Pargeting
Pargeting (or sometimes pargetting) is a decorative or waterproofing plastering applied to building walls.
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Parthian Empire
The Parthian Empire, also known as the Arsacid Empire, was a major Iranian political and cultural power centered in ancient Iran from 247 BC to 224 AD.
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Peter of Castile
Peter (Pedro; 30 August 133423 March 1369), called Peter the Cruel (el Cruel) or the Just (el Justo), was King of Castile and León from 1350 to 1369.
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Pir Bakran mausoleum
The Pir Bakran mausoleum (آرامگاه پیربکران) is a historical mausoleum in Pir Bakran, the capital of Pir Bakran District.
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Plaster
Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements.
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Polychrome
Polychrome is the "practice of decorating architectural elements, sculpture, etc., in a variety of colors." The term is used to refer to certain styles of architecture, pottery, or sculpture in multiple colors.
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Qadad
Qadad (qaḍāḍ) or qudad is a waterproof plaster surface, made of a lime plaster treated with slaked lime and oils and fats. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Qadad are Arabic architecture and Islamic architectural elements.
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Qaitbay
Sultan Abu Al-Nasr Sayf ad-Din Al-Ashraf Qaitbay (السلطان أبو النصر سيف الدين الأشرف قايتباي; 1416/14187 August 1496) was the eighteenth Burji Mamluk Sultan of Egypt from 872 to 901 A.H. (1468–1496 C.E.). He was Circassian by birth, and was purchased by the ninth sultan Barsbay (1422 to 1438 C.E.) before being freed by the eleventh Sultan Jaqmaq (1438 to 1453 C.E.).
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Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi
Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi (قصر الحير الغربي) is a Syrian desert castle or qasr located 80 km south-west of Palmyra on the Damascus road.
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Reconquista
The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for "reconquest") or the reconquest of al-Andalus was the successful series of military campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Umayyad Caliphate.
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Relief
Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Relief are sculpture techniques.
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Royal Convent of Santa Clara
The Royal Convent of Santa Clara is a nunnery in Tordesillas, Spain.
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Safavid Iran
Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire,, officially known as the Guarded Domains of Iran, was one of the largest and long-standing Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty.
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Samarra
Samarra (سَامَرَّاء) is a city in Iraq. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Samarra are Arabic architecture.
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Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.
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Sebka
Sebka refers to a type of decorative motif used in western Islamic ("Moorish") architecture and Mudéjar architecture. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Sebka are Islamic art.
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Sedrata
Sedrata (Berber: Isedraten, سدراتة) is a municipality and large city in Souk Ahras Province, Algeria, capital of Sedrata District.
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Seljuk Empire
The Seljuk Empire, or the Great Seljuk Empire, was a high medieval, culturally Turco-Persian, Sunni Muslim empire, established and ruled by the Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks.
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Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Stained glass
Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it.
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Stucco
Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water.
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Synagogue of El Tránsito
The Synagogue of El Tránsito, also known as the Synagogue of Samuel ha-Levi or Halevi, is a historic synagogue, church, and Sephardic museum in Toledo, Spain.
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Tabriz
Tabriz (تبریز) is a city in the Central District of Tabriz County, in the East Azerbaijan province of northwestern Iran.
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Tadelakt
Tadelakt is a waterproof plaster surface used in Moroccan architecture to make baths, sinks, water vessels, interior and exterior walls, ceilings, roofs, and floors. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Tadelakt are Islamic architectural elements.
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Taifa
The taifas (from طائفة ṭā'ifa, plural طوائف ṭawā'if, meaning "party, band, faction") were the independent Muslim principalities and kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Portugal and Spain), referred to by Muslims as al-Andalus, that emerged from the decline and fall of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba between 1009 and 1031.
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Tlemcen
Tlemcen (translit) is the second-largest city in northwestern Algeria after Oran and is the capital of Tlemcen Province.
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Toledo, Spain
Toledo is a city and municipality of Spain, the capital of the province of Toledo and the de jure seat of the government and parliament of the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha.
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Tordesillas
Tordesillas is a town and municipality in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, central Spain.
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Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.
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Umayyad architecture
Umayyad architecture developed in the Umayyad Caliphate between 661 and 750, primarily in its heartlands of Syria and Palestine. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and Umayyad architecture are Arabic architecture.
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Umayyad Caliphate
The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya) was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty.
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Umayyad state of Córdoba
The Umayyad state of Córdoba was an Arab Islamic state ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from 756 to 1031.
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Vine
A vine is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems, lianas, or runners.
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Zaragoza
Zaragoza also known in English as Saragossa,Encyclopædia Britannica is the capital city of the province of Zaragoza and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain.
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Zellij
Zellij (translit; also spelled zillij or zellige) is a style of mosaic tilework made from individually hand-chiseled tile pieces. Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture and zellij are Islamic architectural elements.
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See also
Arabic art
- Al-Qatt Al-Asiri
- Ancient South Arabian art
- Arabesque
- Arabian carpet
- Arabic calligraphy
- Arabic miniature
- Baghdad School
- Damask
- Fatimid art
- Girih
- Hurufiyya movement
- Khatt Foundation
- Kufic
- Luck of Edenhall
- Mshatta Facade
- Nabataean art
- Norman–Arab–Byzantine culture
- Physician Preparing an Elixir
- Pisa Griffin
- Pseudo-Kufic
- Pyxis of Zamora
- Pyxis of al-Mughira
- Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture
- Timthal Baghdad
Plaster sculptures
- Andromeda (Rodin)
- Ayn Ghazal statues
- Bust of Anton Chekhov
- Bust of Victor Hugo
- Bust of a Woman (Marie-Thérèse)
- Cybele (sculpture)
- Draped Seated Woman 1957–58
- Glaucus (sculpture)
- Glory Pulling Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle Adam From His Eternal Sleep
- Guernica (sculpture)
- Isaac (Calvo)
- L'Âme de la France
- Lion with a Snake
- Lobster Telephone
- Meditation (sculpture)
- Octave Mirbeau (sculpture)
- Snowdrop (sculpture)
- Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture
- Suzon (sculpture)
- The Butcher Boys
- The First Funeral
- The Mature Age
- The Old Tree
- The Shade (sculpture)
- The Three Shades
- Torso of Adele
- Venus Victorious
- Young Mother
References
Also known as Carved stucco in Islamic architecture, Islamic plasterwork, Islamic stucco, Islamic stucco and plaster decoration, Islamic stucco decoration, Islamic stuccowork, Yesería.