Journal of General Union of Arab Archaeologists (Jan 2017)

الألوان ودلالتها فى الحضارة الإسلامیة مع تطبیق على نماذج من المخطوطات العربیة

  • Dr. Hanan Abdel Fattah Motawea•

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21608/JGUAA.2017.4755
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 18
pp. 418 – 450

Abstract

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The study of colors is of great importance in Islamic civilization. It is the material evidence at the level reached by material civilization, and on the social classes and their distinction. As evidenced by the rise of industries, and prosperity, and tastes and development. In the arts, colors are among the finest pages in the Islamic art record that justify the genius and originality of a Muslim artist in industry and art. This study aims at defining the colors and their manifestations in the Islamic civilization and the aesthetic aspects that they occupy in the manuscripts. There are different definitions of the word color in many linguistic dictionaries. , And literary sources provided abundant information, and perhaps the most extensive material on colors found in the books of translations in the Koran came colors in terms of expression and symbolic and sensory and the word color and derivatives in nine verses of the Koran. The Qur'an mentioned six colors: white, green, black, yellow, blue and red. The study explores the technical features of the colors in some of the graphic schools and their symbolism. The Arab school flourished in the first of the Islamic photography schools in the decoration of colored manuscripts since the 6th century AH / 12 AD, and spread its artistic centers as local branches throughout the Islamic world. In Syria, Egypt and Iran, especially during the Seljuks of Iran, and long lived side by side with the Mogul school. The Arab school also extended to North Africa and Andalusia. The Mughal photographer initially began to draw the sad subjects that were more depressing than The war of war and fighting and perhaps the reference to the spirit of the era filled with wars and sedition and intrigues and spread the acts of vandalism, killing and torture artist chose the dark colors such as dark brown and dark blue as well as red and yellow as well as the use of black color a lot, reflected the few manuscripts that reached us from Andalusia that it adopted in its color scheme on bright colors.

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