1. Islamic Art Vocabulary Koran/Qu’ran Hadj Mosque Qibla Imam Minbar Mihrab Minaret Squinches Crenellation Muezzin Moorish Kufic

2. Islam 570 - Mohamed born into Quraysh tribe from Mecca 610 - he received divine orders to recite in praise of Allah 651- Recitations written down into the Koran Pray 5 times a day facing Mecca, fast during Ramadan, make a pilgrimage to Mecca (for those who can), give alms “There is but one God, Allah, and Mohamed is his prophet” Began preaching a monotheistic religion-lost favor in Mecca Went to Medina and gained followers to protect the faith By 632-Islam dominated over half of Arabia Moved further, quicker than Christianity-Constantinople attacked in the 670s but not conquered Moved through Africa into Spain by 711 Stopped from invading France in 732 by Charles Martel Constantinople conquered in 1453 by the Ottoman Turks

3. Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, 687-92 Umayyad Caliph Abd Al-Malik

4. Squinches

5. Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, 687-92

6. Great Mosque of Cordoba, Spain, 8-10 centuries Minaret

7. Abd-al-Rahman I 786-787 Enlarged in 832-848, 961, and 987 Crenellated/crenellation Moorish

8. Interior of the Great Mosque of Cordoba Hypostyle prayer hall

9. Maqsura, Mosque of Cordoba

10. Dome of the Great Mosque of Cordoba, 961-976 Mihrab Qibla Squinches

11. Koran page, 9-10 th century Kufic script

12. The Ardabil Carpet, Iran, 1540

13. Malwiya Minaret of the Great Mosque, Samarra, Iraq, 848-52 Minaret Malwiya- “snail shell”