The religion of Islam for example has many restrictions concerning illustrations and overall art, such as prohibiting the portrayal of living animals, or beings in their art related to the Koran (and other spiritual writings), as did the Christian, and Jewish religions with the bible. However, Islam has taken this restriction to the extreme and expand the restrictions outside the realm of religious writings, whereas the Christians and Catholics later embraced and progressed the artistic process to further project their message and proclaimed glory. This is not to say that Islamic culture has not left an impact in the art world. Islam has made beautiful and striking revisions in areas of design, such as the intricate bordering patterns and designs that accompany parts of the Koran and the Hadith (2nd most important religious book in majority of Islam, the written accounts of Islamic prophet Muhamad). As well as contributing advancements in landscape paintings that generally represented the sacred gardens written about in the …show more content…
This premise is also reinforced by another remark again found in Islamic Art &Architecture which states “Islam was revealed to the prophet Muhamad in western Arabia in the early 7th Century. Later historiography defined this period as a “time of ignorance” (the Jahiliya), in the primary sense a spiritually unenlightened period, but also as a time of relatively limited cultural achievement.” (35). Some would say that this point set in stone for the next several thousand years the inability to further study and develop the Muslim artistic lineage, thus stunting their societal growth and progression of modern ideas and technologies that would later generate in Western and Asiatic civilization. The European, Mediterranean, and Asiatic world continued to move forward with the artistic process which would lead to the industrial revolution, which would lay the foundation for the western world and Asia