{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] The Mosque}[15th April 1991]

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‘There is no prohibition against representation of living things, and not a single Quranic passage refers clearly to the Mosque,* eventually to become the most characteristically Muslim religious building. In the simple, practical, and puritanical milieu of early Islam, aesthetic or visual questions simply did not arise.’

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*{cf churches not mentioned in the Gospels?}

**– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 75

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