Spiritual Significance in Islamic Architecture

Hardcover

The Book Islamic Architecture is among the most recognizable 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.

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.

Author: Dr. Mostafa Badawi