The Image of Heaven in Islamic Arts of Iran

Subject Areas : Urban Design

Nayer  Tahoori ¹ (Assistant Professor, The Advanced Research Institute of Art, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2012-09-15 Accepted : 2012-11-29 Published : 2013-03-01

Keywords: Beauty, Islamic art, Paradise, Tree of life,

Abstract :

Associating certain forms and designs in Islamic Arts with the promised Heaven may be widely observed inthe works of many historians and critics of the field. It is believed that Islamic Art has been derived from the imagination ofthe Paradise as depicted in Holy Quran. To express this meaning in technical words it should be said that the main concept inIslamic Arts has been the gardens of heaven generally described as containing the green trees (the tree of life), colorful flowers,flowing rivers, the ethereal drinks and foods, and even Huries (beautiful young virgins dressing in green fine silk) at the serviceof those who are permitted to meet God.