{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] Early and Middle Periods of Islamic Art}[20th April 1991]

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‘Early period: The Umayyad and Abbasid Dynasties

‘Of all the recognizable periods of Islamic art, this is by far the most difficult one to explain properly, even though it is quite well documented. There are two reasons for this difficulty. On the one hand, it was a formative period, a time when new forms were created that identify the practical and aesthetic ideals of the new culture. Such periods are difficult to define when, as in the case of Islam, **|there was no artistic need inherent to the culture itself.|**

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*(634 - ↓1041CE)

(going back a bit)

2048M~512[ce]|U~768[ce]|{A~1024[ce]

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*** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 76

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