The Assassins, Episode 19.. Learn about the artistic and architectural styles of the Seljuk era

During episode 19 The Assassins seriesThe artistic style appeared in the Seljuk era, represented in the house of Omar Khayyam, where the walls were decorated with bright decorations and engravings. What is the history of the artistic style in the Seljuk era?

to attest Seljuk era In Iran, there was great progress in the construction of buildings in the sixth and seventh centuries after the Hijra, with the walls being decorated with Qashani decorations of paintings or mosaics.

According to the book “Iranian Arts in the Islamic Era” by Zaki Muhammad Hassan, the most important artistic effects left by this Seljuk style are attributed to Asia Minor, Armenia, the Peninsula, and the Levant. What is observed in the Seljuk religious buildings is: It was not limited in most cases to mosques only, but shrines were often built in the form of cylindrical towers or with several sides and faces, or in the form of buildings with domes. The Seljuks also introduced the construction of schools to teach the Sunni doctrine.

In fact, the Shafi’i school of thought had many scattered followers in some parts of Iran, but this Sunni school of thought did not have an official status except at the hands of the Seljuks, especially the minister Nizam al-Mulk, for whom the luxurious schools were built, and who was known for his patronage of the Iranian poet and philosopher Omar Khayyam, although what Of these schools, nothing remains of them were built in Iran, and they were all for teaching the Shafi’i doctrine, while the doctrine of Ibn Hanbal prevailed over the schools that were established in Iraq, and the doctrine of Abu Hanifa over what was built of them in Mosul and Syria, and it happened after that that the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mustansir Billah He built the school attributed to him in Baghdad and made it to teach the four Sunni schools of thought.


The Assassins series Starring Karim Abdel Aziz, Fathi Abdel Wahab, Nicolas Moawad, Mirna Nour El-Din, Ahmed Eid, Islam Gamal, Mohamed Radwan, Sami El-Sheikh, Omar El-Shenawy, Nour Ihab, Suzan Najm El-Din, Yasser Ali Maher, Basant Abu Pasha and a large number of artists. And Guests of Honor, written by Abdel Rahim Kamal, directed by Peter Mimi, and produced by Synergy Company.

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