what is the obsession with geometry and symmetry in Arabic art and architecture?

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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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When you’re religiously barred from any sort of shape that might suggest a human being, you apparently start to get really into geometric patterns.

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