Islamic Architecture is among the most recognisable and most admired in the world. It’s known for its beauty, precision and timelessness, but few understand the meanings and metaphors that underpin it. In this book, Dr Mostafa Badawi takes an unprecedented look at the Spiritual Significance in Islamic Architecture taking the reader on a journey to uncover long forgotten meanings.
Book type: Hardback
No. of pages: 452
Dimensions: 20 x 23.4 x 4cm
Weight: 2192gr
Date published: 01/04/2021
ISBN: 9780952085362
£24.99
Islamic Architecture is among the most recognisable and most admired in the world. It’s known for its beauty, precision and timelessness, but few understand the meanings and metaphors that underpin it.
In this incredible new publication, Dr Mostafa Badawi takes an unprecedented look at the Spiritual Significance in Islamic Architecture taking the reader on a journey to uncover long forgotten meanings.
This stunning production comprises of 452 full colour pages with premium gold gilted edges, cloth hardback and dust jacket making it a must have for every home and a perfect gift.
Book Blurb
It is a cosmic law that the universe that we know is made of complementary and interacting pairs, positive and negative, upper and lower, matter and anti-matter, and so on. That this is the reflection in the created universe of the polarization of the Divine Attributes into Attributes of Majesty and Attributes of Beauty has always been known to Muslim intellectuals.
But that this law is represented pervasively in all Islamic art and especially architecture has been lost sight of by the Muslims of today. In fact, everything in a traditional Muslim environment, not only architecture, but furniture, utensils, clothes, and calligraphy, is a spiritual reminder of God and the laws governing this world and the next. This study explores in unprecedented detail and with authoritative textual references the deeper meanings of many of the elements of Islamic architecture.
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A Abdallah –
I really love the finish, it really suits the topic… the covering of the book is really nice, it’s got that nice artistic touch which ties in really well with the gold leaf edging and the concept of the book itself… that layout inside is nice aswell… I literally flicked through and there was a lot that was catching my eye… Insha’Allah it looks like it’ll be a really good read.
Razia –
I really enjoyed reading this book and the quality is fantastic.
Junaid Azam (verified owner) –
Excellent book, a must have for every library insha Allah
Laila –
Beautiful book! I’ve been using it to gain an understanding of spiritual meanings for my architecture paper and I’m just blown away.