The Muqarnas Dome: Its Origin and Meaning

Tabbaa, Yasser

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“…This decoration item comes indeed to help transition from a surface or volume to another. It decorates domes, niches, and it also remind us of the image of To explain the complexity of these elements, one might need to look at its properties and how it is decorated as in the following definition: All these muqarnas domes share some basic features: (1) they are made of small distinct cells; (2) their squinches, colonnettes, and other structural features are obscured; (3) layers of stucco, paint, or glazed tiles are often used to embellish the cells, and (4) windows are used frequently, though of course in a double-shell design they are only possible at the base of the dome (Tabbaa [8]). …”

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The Mediterranean Region: “Islamic” light in the architecture of the sublime

Faleh

2016

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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This paper traces the material and the spiritual dimensions of light in the architecture of Islam. In a Quranic chapter called "An-Nur" or the light, and in a mystical group of lines "The verse of light", God has explained how light is the essence of life on earth comparing this divine dimension to the light of heaven and earth. This metaphor clearly explains its sacred dimension confirming its importance in the architecture of Islam. The phenomenal experience of this natural element is created in the interiors of buildings, transforming them into an element that enlightens the soul and energizes the space.Light is a timeless, dynamic, and transformative entity that shapes the configuration of space and enhances its dynamism. In the architecture of Islam, it is ingeniously transforming buildings into living entities. Its penetration and its reflection through patterns and on colours accentuates the dynamism of the interiors and calls for an exploration of the duality between light, pattern, and colour. The solid surface then becomes fluid and a myriad of patterns transforms the meaning of the architectural space. Each pattern, geometry and form is a living element inside the building. Muqarnas cells beneath domes are reflecting and refracting elements depending on light quality.This research investigates the dimension of light in Islam and explains how this dynamic entity coexists with surfaces, patterns, and colours creating a unity within a diverse architecture. The sublime becomes architectural and its fluidity then reveals an intimate relationship between the spiritual and the material.

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The Mediterranean Region: “Islamic” light in the architecture of the sublime

Faleh

2016

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“…As Yasser Tabbaa has argued, these muqarnas examples in Damascus are based on Iraqi models from Baghdad. 52 This leads me to assume that there were personal contacts between craftsmen. 53 Eugenio Galdieri has raised an important issue that leaves all the possibilities open to further studies, surveys, and excavations in Sicily: he wonders how it could be that after 264 years of Islamic domination there was no trace of building activity carried out during that period.…”

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A Methodology For Studying Muqarnas: The Extant Examples In Palermo

Garofalo¹

2011

Muqarnas, Volume 27

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“…ISSN: 0213-1498 rante muchos siglos el auténtico Templo de Salomón. 208 Además, se da la circunstancia de que el harneruelo aparece completamente recubierto de mocárabes, un elemento ornamental utilizado en el mundo islámico para representar las esferas celestes, o la realidad atomizada unificada por Dios, 209 y que solía emplearse en recintos de carácter funerario, 210 aunque la naturaleza cristiana del recinto -y su techumbre-queda convenientemente subrayada por la inclusión de los símbolos de los Evangelistas -y de otros temas alegóricos de raíz cristiana-en las jácenas que permiten el tránsito de la planta cuadrada a la octogonal, 211 el mismo procedimiento utilizado desde la Antigüedad tardía para adaptar la cúpula clásica a los nuevos usos y significados impuestos por la nueva visión del universo facilitada por el cristianismo. 212 La construcción de la capilla de San Miguel como un trasunto del Santuario jerosolimitano también permite entender mejor la inscripción desplegada por la fachada septentrional del edificio sobre unas piezas cerámicas que se repondrían en el curso de la restauración operada en el lienzo mural a finales del siglo pasado: [aedifica]ta bene fundata est supra firmam petram.…”

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Materiales, técnicas y significados en torno a la arquitectura de la Corona de Aragón en tiempos del Compromiso de Caspe (1410-1412)

Catalán¹,

Fernández²

2011

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A pesar de la difícil situación económica por la que estaban atravesando, los territorios de la Corona de Aragón experimentaron un inesperado auge constructivo entre finales del siglo XIV y los primeros años de la centuria siguiente. Además, en este periodo se difundió la técnica de las bóvedas tabicadas, se aplicaron importantes innovaciones en lo que respecta a la geometría de los sistemas de abovedamiento, se rescató la técnica del yeso estructural, y se construyeron tipos sumamente característicos, como las torres campanario de planta octogonal o los cimborrios; unas técnicas y unas tipologías que se pusieron al servicio de intenciones muy diversas, desde el espíritu imperial heredado de Federico II Hohenstaufen, hasta el deseo por recuperar la Antigüedad bíblica o mosaica, que llevaría a realizar auténticas paráfrasis del Templo de Salomón, como la capilla de San Miguel de la Seo de Zaragoza, o a seguir levantando estructuras con mayor valor simbólico que funcional —como los propios cimborrios— a modo de sinécdoque del edificio jerosolimitano.

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The Muqarnas Dome: Its Origin and Meaning

Cited by 18 publications

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The Mediterranean Region: “Islamic” light in the architecture of the sublime

The Mediterranean Region: “Islamic” light in the architecture of the sublime

A Methodology For Studying Muqarnas: The Extant Examples In Palermo

Materiales, técnicas y significados en torno a la arquitectura de la Corona de Aragón en tiempos del Compromiso de Caspe (1410-1412)

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