Islamic art

OLD IDENTITIES AND NEW PERSPECTIVES

When in one historic period it seemed that due to drift from pagan, physical and mythological, the Islamic art will come to its corner, with God’s mercy, a new possibilities of a man’s creative expressions opened up, and as such brought to the fact that Islamic arts became one of most original artistic systems of humankind, the system that is never warned out, seeking the inspiration in symbols of the inexhaustible Divine creation.

Sometimes it seems to us, due to the insufficient understanding of some all-historical components of the cultural development, that Islamic Arts is a distant and forgotten esthetic phenomenon, noticed only within the museum collections and dusty library shelfs, i.e. that such Arts doesn’t represent the active and modern way of creative expression, convenient to draw the aspirations and preoccupations of the contemporary (Islamic) man.

This opinion can have its objective foundation within the recognition that in the last hundred years, a specific civilizational slow down appeared of those countries and territories which their traditional values based on the Islamic spirituality. Planetary transposition of cultural, religious and political values, which was strongly exposed under the attack of of the laicistic revolution of the Western man in the end of the 19th century, relentlessely reflected upon the Islamic countries, which, due to its internal ethical ruin, noticable in all pores of the social life couldn’t adequately regroup its spiritual forces and respond to a new global phenomena and challenges.

And indeed, by the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, Khilafat as the institutionally arranged territorial union of the Islamic conuntries dissapears and with that all those forms of the cultural activities, which one such „state being“ kept as the vital structure. Dissapearance of the political authority brough to the ruin of the social order and with it the nucleus of the community and of families was broken. The lack of ethical issues within the Islamic proviniency has led to the loss of the Islamic identity, and by that to all those spiritual expressions among which are the ones of the esthetic nature.

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