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Koran/Qu’ran Hadj Mosque Qibla Imam Minbar Mihrab. Minaret Squinches Crenellation Muezzin Moorish Kufic. Islamic Art Vocabulary. Islam. 570 - Mohamed born into Quraysh tribe from Mecca 610 - he received divine orders to recite in praise of Allah
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Koran/Qu’ran Hadj Mosque Qibla Imam Minbar Mihrab Minaret Squinches Crenellation Muezzin Moorish Kufic Islamic ArtVocabulary
Islam • 570 - Mohamed born into Quraysh tribe from Mecca • 610 - he received divine orders to recite in praise of Allah • 651- Recitations written down into the Koran • Pray 5 times a day facing Mecca, fast during Ramadan, make a pilgrimage to Mecca (for those who can), give alms • “There is but one God, Allah, and Mohamed is his prophet” • Began preaching a monotheistic religion-lost favor in Mecca • Went to Medina and gained followers to protect the faith • By 632-Islam dominated over half of Arabia • Moved further, quicker than Christianity-Constantinople attacked in the 670s but not conquered • Moved through Africa into Spain by 711 • Stopped from invading France in 732 by Charles Martel • Constantinople conquered in 1453 by the Ottoman Turks
Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, 687-92 • Umayyad Caliph Abd Al-Malik
Abd-al-Rahman I • 786-787 • Enlarged in 832-848, 961, and 987 • Crenellated/crenellation • Moorish
Interior of the Great Mosque of Cordoba Hypostyle prayer hall
Dome of the Great Mosque of Cordoba, 961-976 Mihrab Qibla Squinches
Koran page, 9-10th century Kufic script
Malwiya Minaret of the Great Mosque, Samarra, Iraq, 848-52 • Minaret • Malwiya- “snail shell”