Having my mind blown visiting the Alhambra palace. It’s sensory overload. How come so much of the art is geometric? Was it a fashion spawned by discovery or invention or what?
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One of the founding ideals of Islam was being against idol worship. This means not placing any depictions (paintings or sculptures) of things in places of reverence. (Things being something that could be an object of worship)
So Muslims expressed themselves through abstract art.
Source: I’m a Muslim
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