An analysis of Methods for Understanding Islamic Art and Architecture

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MIRGHOLAMI MORTEZA; Mirfakhraei Ashrafossadat; ANSARI MOJTABA

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Journal: Culture of Islamic Architecture and Urbanism Journal Year:2020 | Volume:5 | Issue:1 Page(s): 37-52

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An analysis of Methods for Understanding Islamic Art and Architecture

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MIRGHOLAMI MORTEZA | Mirfakhraei Ashrafossadat | ANSARI MOJTABA | Issue Writer Certificate

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Meaning perception

Foundations of epistemology

Social methodology of Quran

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Grasping potential methods for exploring Islamic art and architecture is a continuous challenge. The problem is to what extent we should rely on strategies based on the world knowledge (science and intellect) or the Islamic worldview and doctrine (religion and revelation)? In the first part of the present article, mainly based on the documentary studies of the major foundations of contemporary epistemology and their theoretical approach, each of these methods and their significance and credibility are reviewed and appraised. In this way, using descriptive-analytical method, various possibilities of understanding in architecture spaces in general and Islamic architectural spaces in particular are examined. The results of the survey show that the foundations of materialistic recognition and even the foundational principles of artistic ontology, although yielding significant gains from understanding, are not capable of comprehensively identifying an architectural work, especially Islamic architecture. The method proposed here is the transcendental wisdom of Islam. From the perspective of Islamic culture, this method is due to: 1) belief in the ontology, anthropology and epistemology of the divine; 2) the freedom of the spiritual soul of man in realizing his innate talents; 3) belief in the constant type of innate human needs and their direction and purpose; 4) belief in the validity and relativeness of the actual human identity (issues such as art, religion, culture, style and way of creating the work) by affirming the four sources of Islamic jurisprudence and ijtihad (Quran), tradition, consensus, wisdom; 5) using interactional variety of perception tools (sensory experiences, rational reasoning and mystical intuition); 6) possibility of the appearance of different epistemic approaches are adequate to provide certain epistemology to understand the concept of sacred art and subsequently Islamic architecture. In the second part of the article, the relation between Islam and modernity are examined. It becomes clear that the sources of conflict between science and religion go back to restriction of the domain of religion to quotes and leaving the wisdom beyond the framework of religious knowledge. This article, based on verses and narratives, suggests the evidence of wisdom and the relation between science and religion and believe that if wisdom is a religious proof and conferring religious verdict, then rational products in the broad sense, which includes all sciences in different areas, will complement religious material and will not in contrary and distinct with religious verdicts. Finally, it is suggested that a proper understanding of Islamic art and architecture would be subject to a fundamental change in the perspective of the practical wisdom of Islam and the production of knowledge based on Islamic notions. Practical Islamic wisdom regulations, that is the doctrine and rules of the Shari’ a in the field of belief, morality and verdicts, as well as human communication with the components of existence in the ontology of transcendental Islamic philosophy (relation with God, self, society, nature and history), should be drafted based on the principles of the Islamic world. This may be used as a criterion for the study of Islamic art and architecture. Obviously, the architecture derived from such knowledge that intertwine both the wisdom and the Shari’ a without prejudicing and distracting through justice, will deserve to be appreciated as religious and Islamic architecture.

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MIRGHOLAMI, MORTEZA, Mirfakhraei, Ashrafossadat, & ANSARI, MOJTABA. (2020). An analysis of Methods for Understanding Islamic Art and Architecture. CULTURE OF ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM JOURNAL, 5(1 ), 37-52. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/406317/en

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MIRGHOLAMI MORTEZA, Mirfakhraei Ashrafossadat, ANSARI MOJTABA. An analysis of Methods for Understanding Islamic Art and Architecture. CULTURE OF ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM JOURNAL[Internet]. 2020;5(1 ):37-52. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/406317/en

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MORTEZA MIRGHOLAMI, Ashrafossadat Mirfakhraei, and MOJTABA ANSARI, “An analysis of Methods for Understanding Islamic Art and Architecture,” CULTURE OF ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM JOURNAL, vol. 5, no. 1 , pp. 37–52, 2020, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/406317/en

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