Islamic Art:
With its heavily eclectic and long history of Egypt, Egypt’s Islamic art is consisted of diversity from arts produced by people who have lived through ruling of culturally Islamic society from the 7th century onwards. Islamic art is not only restricted to the religion of Islam but also incorporates all the rich and varied cultural aspects from small objects such as pottery to monumental architecture that are all over the Islamic countries, especially Egypt. As the Muslim artists combined the Byzantine and Sasanian influence into their art with their own distinctive styles, they produced the Islamic art, which is now an amalgam of various sources. Islamic art has always kept its identifying and unique quality through numerous events throughout the history, and retained its unifying characteristics, or the four basic components: vegetal patterns, calligraphy, geometric patterns, and figural representation.
Calligraphy:
Calligraphy is prominent and fundamental element of Islamic art, in that it is significantly important in Qur’an and is imprinted on most of all sculptures. It is what gives the deep meaning to each artwork.
Vegetal Patterns:
The vegetal patterns originated from existing traditions of Byzantine culture in the eastern Mediterranean, in which the Egyptian artists put on most of their buildings, manuscripts, textiles, and various objects.
Geometric patterns:
The geometric patterns have extremely abstract designs, and are popularly associated with Islamic art because of their aniconic quality. The geometric patterns are now considered to be the pinnacle of ornamentation in the Islamic world as they are the designs that are most frequently used on surfaces of monumental Islamic architecture and on sculptures such as potteries.