Intro: The history or Islamic ornamental design is a very rich and complex one. Islamic art, specifically ornamental art found on Islamic architecture, is symbolic of not only the aesthetic trends of Islamic culture but is reflective of the Quran and its poetic descriptions and symbolic stories. When specifically looking at buildings like the Alhambra, one can see that the Nasrid artists embellished the building in three specific ways: the carving of stylized foliage; the use of tiles to form elaborate geometric figures in primary colors, and the repetitive use of Arabic calligraphy. These three common characteristics are not only seen in the Alhambra but on and within many masques, palaces, and Islamic architecture as a whole. As we have
