آداب الرافدين (Sep 1978)
The most important architectural and artistic mutual influences between Iraq and the Maghreb in the Islamic era
Abstract
The Arabs, after Islam united all of them, carried its principles and were at first preoccupied with jihad and conquests, disregarding worldly manifestations. Therefore, it is not surprising if they were influenced in the field of architecture and arts by the styles that preceded them, especially the Sassanids and Byzantines, which were prevalent in the regions that came to their authority. It is natural for every nation to borrow some aspects of civilization - including architecture and arts - from the nations that preceded it, because human civilization has multiple links that complement each other. Many people contributed to its formation in different places and times. But before the end of the first century AH the seventh century AD, the Arabs quickly moved from the role of quotation to the role of development and innovation, and they became an artistic and architectural style with its own styles and advantages, so that it influenced many architectural and artistic aspects in Europe during the Middle Ages. It is regrettable to him that the true face of this Arab-Islamic style did not fully appear in its true nature, due to the disappearance of many buildings and the lack of maintenance of most of them on sound foundations, in addition to the loss of many transferred archaeological valuables, and some orientalists who had a first in studying Arab antiquities They devoted part of their efforts to withholding any merit to Arabs and Muslims in the field of arts and architecture, in addition to the directives that inspired some Arab scholars and intellectuals to focus most of their attention on the ancient antiquities of Islam and then give what remained of that attention to the Arab antiquities in the Islamic era. We do not deny the importance of the ancient antiquities of Islam, but the time has come to uncover our Arab and Islamic antiquities and work to preserve and study them in order not to remain in a civilized vacuum in this field and so that our present and future generations do not lose their connection with the heritage of the ancestors.
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