Muqarnas

Year 2022, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 47 - 68, 25.09.2022

Yasemin Turan , Cengiz Şahin

Abstract

Muqarnas, which is one of the basic parts of traditional Islamic architecture and Islamic art, has its own important features in terms of usage areas. Although from the perspective of Islamic art history, Islamic architecture and Turkish-Islamic Architecture it is both structural and artistic visual feast unfortunately not much work has been done on muqarnas. For this reason, the aim of this study is to eliminate this deficiency in the literature, in the light of the relevant literature, especially from the perspective of Fatih Uluengin’s historic work titled "Stalactite Plans Trench" presented at the First Turkish Arts Congress (Ankara 19-24 October 1959). The following issues will be addressed in this study;
• What is muqarnas?
• Where was Muqarnas found?
• Where is muqarnas used?
• and Muqarnas design

Keywords

muqarnas, geometric design, islamic architecture, islamic geometry, pattern, islamic pattern

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