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Islamic Civilisation Primer Series

Session 2 - Deep Impact

13 January 2007

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Deep Impact Programme1. Recap of Session 1: Contact & Connect (5 min)

2. Link it to Session 2 – Deep Impact (Expectation Setting) (5 min)

3. Impact 1: Islam & Art (10 min)

4. Activity 1 PicArt (20 min)

5. Presentation of PicArt (15 min)

6. Impact 2: Islam & Architecture (10 mins)

7. Video Session – Part I (15mins)

8. Sociology Coffee Break – (40 min)

9. Impact 3: Islam & Music (10 min)

10. Impact 4: Islam & Science (10 min)

11. Video Session – Part II (15 min)

12. Reflections (5 min)

13. Briefing on Project work (10 min)

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Revisiting Session 1:

“Contact & Connect”

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Case Study

Art

Architecture

Music

Science

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Case Study - Art

Arabesque – Geometric and floral patterns

Non human/animal forms

Designs encourage deep thoughts and

spiritual contemplation

Abstract,

Fitted into mosque

Creative and freed imagination

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Topkapi Scroll

114 individual geometric patterns for wall

surface

15th – 16th C

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Case Study - Art

King Henry VII –famous knot design followed arabesque patterns

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Case Study - Art

Calligraphy

Art of writing

beautiful flowing

text, in

remembrance of

God

Illustrates the

Quran

Developed

independently

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Case Study - Art

Kufic, Kufa Iraq

Naskh – Ibn Muqlah

Diwani - Uthmaniah

Thuluth – Ummayah

Farsi - Persian

Riq’a – Naskh + Thuluth

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From Reed Pen to Fountain Pen

Case Study - Art

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Pic Art

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Case Study - Architecture Values

Arches

Hold huge weights

‘the arch never sleeps’

Imitation of palm trees

Vaults

Stone arch that makes a canopy or ceiling

Originated by Romans, refined by Muslims

Dome

3-D arch

Represents the vault of heaven

Interior lighting

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Case Study - Architecture

Ideas of Allah’s

infinite power

repeated

Space and Majestic

power

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Arches

Hold huge weights

‘the arch never sleeps’

Imitation of palm trees

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Case Study – Arch Architecture

St Andrew’s CathedralChurch of Cristo de la Luz, Toledo, Spain, 10th

century – Bab Mardum mosque

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Vaults

Stone arch that makes a canopy or ceiling

Originated by Romans, refined by Muslims

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Case Study – Vault Architecture

Ceiling Westminster Abbey, London

Dome of the Rock Ceiling

Murqana vault at Lotfollah Mosque, Isfahan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:St_Basils_Cathedral-500px.jpg

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Dome

3-D arch

Represents the vault of heaven

Interior lighting

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Case Study – Dome Architecture

St Basil’s

cathedral, Russia

1555 CE

Dome of the Rock -691CE

Singapore Supreme Court - 1939

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:St_Basils_Cathedral-500px.jpg

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Rose Window in Durham cathedral, UK.

Khirbat al-Mafjar, in Ummayah Palace, Jordan, 740-750 CE

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Now Showing

Architecture in Islam

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SOCIOLOGY

COFFEE BREAK

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Case Study - Music

Islam doesn’t forbid all types of music –

only those which lead to improper

behaviour

Scale – do re mi fa so la ti

Instruments – ‘Ud, Rababah

The great book of music

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Musical Notes?

Do – د

Re – ر

Mi – م

Fa - ف

So - ص

La - ل

Ti - س

Al-Kindi in the 9th century

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Music – ‘Ud (lute)

Lute – 8th CE Guitar

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More Musical Instruments

Rababah – 10th CE

Rebab

Violin – 16th CE

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Kitab Al-Musiqa Al-Kabir

Theory of Music

Translated to

Hebrew and Latin

Focused on the lute

– string instrumentAl-Farabi

http://www.chrysalis-foundation.org/Al-Farabi-s_Uds.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:200TengeNote.jpg

http://chrysalis-foundation.org/Al-Farabi-s_Uds.htm

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Case Study - Science

Learning Science was a culture

Theories and Instruments

Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics,

Mathematics

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Identify as many instruments as you can.

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Abdul Rahman Al-Sufi (Azophi)

903-986

Corrected Ptolemy Star

list

First recorded

Andromeda Galaxy -

964

Book of fixed stars

Magnitude of stars

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Ibn Yunus

Egyptian astronomer

b 950

Atmospheric refraction of

the Sun

Invented pendulum

Trigonometric identity

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Mathematics Revisited

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Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya

Al-Razi

865-925 CE

First described smallpox

– acknowledged by

Encyclopedia Britannica

Allergic Asthma

The virtous Life/The

large comprehensive/ Al-

Hawi – greatest medical

doctor

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Instruments and Inventions

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Now Showing

Islam and Science

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Reflections

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Surah Al-Alaq (1-4)

Proclaim! (or read!) in the name of thy Lord and Cherisher, Who created-

Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood:

Proclaim! And thy Lord is Most Bountiful,-

He Who taught (the use of) the pen,-

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Surah Ad-Dukhaan

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