The Quran is the most important book in the Islamic religion. It is what the Bible is to the Christians, what the Torah is to Jews. The rules that were sent down in the Quran prohibited things like worshipping idols, intoxicating oneself (alcohol, drugs, etc…), and some other things. In some religious artworks (if I may call them that) that other religions have made, Christianity’s depiction of Mary and Jesus, Buddhism’s depictions of all their gods, etc, there are loads of artworks depicting figures important to the religion, from sculptures, to paintings, to carvings.
Rather than using their artwork capabilities, Muslims have made a beautiful artwork called calligraphy. Calligraphy is the art of writing the Arabic of the Quran, the 99 names of god, etc, in exquisite and elegant scripts. Calligraphy, a magnificent form of artistic writing used to be used commonplace to write the Quran. As a result, the Quran brought new enlightenments to the Muslim art world. Even in times like today there are enormous kinds of beautiful art works used to right the Quran. Examples of Islamic art are things like works on mosques, carpets, metals, etc… The Taj Mahal’s famous silk carpets are world renowned examples of the beautiful Muslim art. With time, the Islamic art formed a unique artistic language that used geometrical patterns for representation. Muslim mathematicians, like the Baghdad mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī who first invented the basic theory of the Fibonacci sequence (later refined and introduced to Europe by Leonardo da Pisa), one big example is the Arabesque. From places like the Dome of Rock in Jerusalem to the Alhambra palace in Spain, Islamic art is insanely diverse and magnificent in every aspect.
