The Tour to Great Indian Art : Islamic Art India

Islamic Art

Examples! Examples! ah they can be seen everywhere in india. The most develeped and most vast form of art ind India. The islamic art is great admired and studied all over world. KUTUBMinar, Redfort, Fatehpur Sikri to name a few of thousands are most striking islamic art monuments. They attract a thousands of visitors all over world. Of all the visual arts, calligraphy has been most highly regarded as a fine art by Muslims. The Arabic alphabet in various scripts, generally in combination with arabesque ornament, became the most prized decoration for architecture and other functional works, such as furniture, textiles, and vessels. Indeed, with the exception of poets and calligraphers, Muslims have never looked to artists for special insights or meanings. They have regarded the arts primarily as the decorative arts, based greatly upon the study of mathematics, and involving intricately geometric designs.

Islamic art monuments present a fusion of two worlds, a great engineering example of monumnets.

Under the Mughals, India was the heart of a great Islamic empire and a prolific center of Islamic culture and learning. According to historian Gavin Hambly, the Mughals provided the setting for a brilliant court and a vigorous cultural life which was equal to Isfahan under the Safavid Shahs or Istanbul under the Ottoman Sultans.

The Mughals lived and reigned in India from 1526 to 1858 AD. Their dynasty was the greatest, richest and longest-lasting Muslim dynasty to rule India. This dynasty produced the finest and most elegant arts and architecture in theof Muslim dynasties.

The name Mughal, writes art historian Barbara Brend (1991), is an Indian version of Mongal; to dwellers in India, the term referred to anyone from Central Asia. Hambly notes that the favorite cities of the Mughals included Delhi, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri and Lahore.

The Mughal state was well aware of the declamatory power of architecture and used it as a means of self-representation and an instrument of royalty, write scholars Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom (1994). The most remarkable monuments of the great dynasty of the Mughals included: Humayun's tomb at Delhi;
  • the tomb of Khan-i Khanan in south Nizamuddin;
  • the Red Fort at Agra;
  • the mausoleum of Akbar at Sikandara outside Agra;
  • the tomb of Jahangir at Shahdara across the Ravi from Lahore;
  • the tomb of Itimad al-Dawleh at Agra;
  • the Taj Mahal at Agra;
  • the tomb of Aurangzeb's wife at Aurangabad; and
  • the Nawab Safdar Jang's tomb at Delhi.

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