Islam

By: Hailey Featherstone, Emily Sibley, Erin Ford, Catie Dawson

Islam

Islam means submission to GodArab scholars laid the foundations of arithmitic and algebraIslamic art made an impact on western medieval artTaj Mahal is an Islamic mausoleum

Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, 687-692

Interior of the Dome of the Rock

San Vitale, Ravenna

Great Mosque, Damascus, Syria

Great Mosque, Damascus, Syria

Mosaic in courtyard, Great Mosque of Damascus

Frieze of the Umayyad palace, Mshatta, Jordan 740-750

Great Mosque, Kairouan, Tunisia

Malwiya minaret of the Great Mosque, Samarra, Iraq

Great Mosque, Samarra, Iraq

Mausoleum of the Samanids, Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Great Mosque, Cordoba, Spain, 8th to 10th centuries

Great Mosque, Cordoba

• Cordoba was the capital of the Spanish Umayyads

• Influenced the Christian west• The Great mosque

• One of the largest in the Islamic west

• Caliph al-Hakam II

Great Mosque, Cordoba, Spain

Maquarnas dome, Hall of the Two Sisters, Alhambra palace, Granada, Spain, 1354-1391

Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain

Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain

Sultan Hasan, Cairo, Egypt 1356

Sultan Hasan, Cairo, Egypt 1356

Sinan, Mosque of Selim II, Edrine, Turkey, 1568-1575

Sinan interior

Sinan interior

Great Mosque, Isfahan, Iran

Shahi Mosque, Isfahan, Iran

Mihrab from the Madrasa Imami, Isfahan, Iran 1354

Maqsud of KashanArdabil, Iran1540

Sultan-MuhammadTabriz, Iran 1525-1535

From the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp

Canteen with episodes from the life of Christ, from Syria 1240-1250

Timeline

• 570 – Birth of Muhammad• 642 - Muslim conquest of Lower Egypt • 711 – Muslim armies enter Spain• 762 – Abbasids found Baghdad• 1099 – First Crusade captures Jerusalem• 1281 – Ottoman empire founded• 1492 – Fall of Granada to the Christians