Research on the evolution of minaret from early Islam to Seljuk period looking at background of minaret in Iran

Year 2015, Volume: 36 Issue: 3, 4137 - 4149, 13.05.2015

Mehdi Makvandı , Nahid Hasanı Seyed Mohammad Lary Zeinab Khodabakhshi Khodabakhshı Simin Makvandı

Abstract

Abstract. Culture and civilization of every generation is originating from the traditions of ancestors and its predecessors. Social, cultural and ideological foundation of every nation, rooted in cultural and social beliefs are the ancestors of that land. One of the most important architectural elements that has special place in architectural culture and social traditions, is minaret, which unfortunately has been less attention of historians and experts. Minaret means is the place of light in terms of building. Long and narrow which next to the mosques and holy shrines to call to prayer or as the desire of guide along the road, Mosques and caravanserais, schools and dar Al-ziyafeh has been constructed, due to turn on lights or fire over it in order to help in the night, to Minaret or place of light has been known. The effects and symptoms of pre-Islamic minarets that very few of them remained in Iran, it follows that in pre-Islamic minarets aimed Guidance is built. Architectonics of minarets, particularly in Iran, no doubt with the changes, are rooted in pre-Islamic architectural designs, thus, by using the described method, research based on the evolution of minarets, From early Islam to the Seljuk period take on the history of minarets in Iran that rely on data collected by Internet-library to particularly and importance of this feature will pay It is important to note to the value in traditional Iranian architecture, topics studied in this paper that to process of transformation during the Seljuk minaret of Islam to them.

Keywords

Transformation, during the Seljuk, minaret, early centuries of Islam

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