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Geometric and Floral Design
Calligraphy
Textiles
Music in Muslim Spain
Vocabulary
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Muslims earned fame for what?
Their decorative art
100
What everyday items were decorated with calligraphy?
Pottery tiles, swords, and ends of pieces of cloth
100
What materials did weavers weave into cloth?
Wool, linen, silk, and cotton
100
Persian music styles were very influential to who?
Cities in the East
100
What is calligraphy?
The art of beautiful handwriting
200
What is an arabesque?
A design based on the beauty of the natural world
200
What does calligraphy look like?
The letters are mostly round,and it's in cursive
200
Other than being embroidered, what might be done to cloth?
It might be died with vivid colors
200
Who was Ziryab?
A talented musician and singer from Baghdad
200
What is an advanced school of music called
A conservatory
300
What are 3 items that Muslims might have decorated using the technique?
Metal boxes, ceramic bowls, tiles, carpets, and walls
300
Muslims felt that writing was the only thing worthy of who?
God
300
What did clothes represent?
Rank
300
Who made the first conservatory?
Ziryab
300
What is manufactured cloth called?
Textiles
400
What shapes had special meaning to Muslims?
Circles, triangles, squares, and hexagons
400
Who was honored above other artists?
Calligraphers
400
Other than being died, what might happen to cloth?
It might be embroidered
400
There was a lot of what in Muslim Spain's culture?
Singing
400
What is a lute?
A plucked string instrument with a long neck
500
What did Muslims reject and why?
Muslims rejected the use of humans and animals in art because they said that only God could create a living thing.
500
What was carved in mosques?
Parts of the Koran
500
What might the caliph and his court wear?
Robes made of valuable cloth
500
Vocalists performed with instruments such as...?
Drums, flutes, and lutes
500
What is a caliph?
The chief Muslim civil and religious ruler, regarded as the successor of Muhammad