AKRA International Journal of Culture Art Literature and Educational Sciences

Abstract

The work of art that emerges as a product of the Islamic art tradition can be considered a manifestation of the understanding of the existence and life of the society in which the artist lives with the artist. Although the work of art is a product of the artist's personal experience and effort, it also has a data feature that reveals the cultural accumulation of the society from which the artist emerged and the aesthetic perspective of the religious thought to which he belongs. Islamic art has developed a basic understanding of style and motifs from its beginnings to the present; it has determined the general framework that the artist must follow precisely. In the historical process, a unity of thought and action was achieved in many fields of Islamic art such as poetry, architecture, music, and decorative arts. Although many works have been written on Islamic arts until today, it is difficult to say that sufficient studies have been carried out to bring together the concepts of Islamic art aesthetics and address them holistically. At this point, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Uğur Karadeniz's work titled "Understanding Aesthetic Beauty in Islamic Arts" fills a big gap. In this work, the author has examined both the aesthetic background of Islamic arts and explained their sources and concepts in a holistic manner. By analyzing this valuable work, we aimed to present it to the attention of all researchers and readers, especially those working in the fields of Classical Turkish Literature and Islamic Arts.