(IAAO) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing information on arts and architecture. With a strong commitment to research and service, IAAO strives to offer a Web presentation of the highest quality and to promote the awareness of Islamic arts as a humanistic study, recognizing the inter-relationship between the arts and other academic disciplines.
IAAO seeks to encourage Islamic arts research in all dimensions by encouraging our members and Cyber-friends to contribute and be actively involved in IAAO's service to communities both within and beyond the Cyber-world. In keeping with the mission of this organization, IAAO is committed to serving our members and Cyber-friends, while developing and maintaining excellence and diversity by attracting volunteers, nationally and internationally.
IAAO is dedicated to the sustenance and advancement of arts and culture in the academic setting and throughout society. Recognizing the changing character of arts in contemporary life, IAAO acknowledges a responsibility to evaluate our on-line and off-line programs and procedures-and to discover new and effective avenues in the realization of our mission.
IAAO is dedicated to the sustenance and advancement of arts and culture in the academic setting and throughout society. Recognizing the changing character of arts in contemporary life, IAAO acknowledges a responsibility to evaluate our on-line and off-line programs and procedures-and to discover new and effective avenues in the realization of our mission.
ISLAM EMPIRE OF FAITH.
produced one of the best multimedia presentation about Islam -- arts, faith, and culture. "Islam Empire of Faith" Video/DVD, Book, and Web site present as broad a portrait of Islamic art and culture as possible, in order to show the great diversity as well as the fundamental unity of Islamic civilization in its long and varied history.
GlOSSARY.
This Glossary is designed to be a comprehensive and un-authoritative source of definitions for the Islamic and Arabic-related terms and abbreviations:
Royal or imperial title before Alexander, and later used by Byzantine sovereigns from 630 onward.
Basmalah is the expression 'Bism Allah al-Rahman al-Rahim' (in the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful) which appears at the head of every chapter of the Holy Qur'an (Muslims Holy book), with the exception of Surat al-Tawbah (Repentance, IX). The invocation of the Basmalah is considered to have a great benedictory powers, and is therefore highly used before important acts in every day life.
Transversal spatial unit in a covered space. The bay contrasts with the nave which is longitudinal. In a hypostyle space, the bay corresponds to the division between two rows of columns set perpendicular to the axis of the entrance.
In Cairo, many bazaars for the sale of goods have been located in streets and passages that could be closed at night with wooden doors and chains. Mamluk windows, placed at least two meters above ground, enabled stalls to be pitched against them without difficulty. The wooden roof is substantial but is not a permanent structure. The shopkeepers stand on a kind of dais some feet above the road.
Dynasty of Shiite emirs who occupied Baghdad in the tenth and eleventh centuries and who kept the Abbasid caliphs under tutelage.
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