A paper submitted
to the Scientific Promotion Committee
in Babylon University in partial fulfillment
of the Requirements for Professorship Rank
The present study tackles Aesthetic Values of Geometrical
Shapes in the Quranic Manuscripts in the orbit of the Quranic
manuscripts purporting the beauties of the Islamic decoration
considered as the constituents of the decoration construction. In
time, the Islamic artworks give much shrifts to abstractism in having
visual scenes for certain vicinities, geographical and vegetable,
taking a decorative harmonized system steeped in raving beauty.
So the art of manuscript surges into being under the umbrella of
its decoration and attaches importance to presuming decorative
values reckoning on the systems of ornamental construction.
The current paper consists of four chapters; the first takes hold
of the problem and the need of it, the aesthetic discourse in the
Quranic manuscripts surveying the construction of decoration in
general and the geometry in the Islamic manuscripts in Iraq , in
particular ; the aim of the study defining the aesthetic values for
the geometrical shapes in the Quranic manuscripts in Iraq in light
of abstractism in the art of manuscript decorating and explication
of samples for geometrical decorations of unpunished Quranic
manuscripts as of 1110 Hegira to 1226 Hegira counting upon the
method of the content explicating in the orbit of aesthetic view
theoretically and procedurally. The second chapter manipulates
the theoretical side and bifurcated intro three sections; the first
deals with the beauties of decorative shapes in intellectuality and
philosophy giving visions to the importance of aestheticism in intellectuality, arts and philosophy from civilization to civilization;
the second section covers the systems of the decorative shape
and the essentials of construction paving the way to knowledge in
the orbit of the decorative discourse in the Islamic arts technically,
performatively and referentially ; the third section grasps the
geometrical trend in the decoration of the manuscript.
Third chapter purports the procedures, samples, strategy and the
analysis of the samples that are five Quranic manuscripts from the
Abbasid age . The fourth chapter reviews the results; the Muslim
decorator suggests the principle of diffusion to the decorative
constituents, vegetable and geometrical, due to the processes of
simplification and construction the decorator uses in his products,
that is why his decorative artworks gain model aesthetic values
coming equal to the images of the originality . Furthermore, there
are inference, recommendations and suggestions; the researcher
recommends to put in force a further study ; the Symbol and its
Patterns in the Quranic Manuscripts. |