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ESSAY TITLE: "Islamic Art is characterised by variety". Is this true? "And of His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your tongues and colours. In that, surely, are Signs for those who have knowledge." (Qur'an, al-Rum: 23) Islam is an entire way of life, with Islamic Art playing an integral part in this. Extending from North Africa to Southeast Asia, it links together "disparate communities through a range of common cultural values."1 A range of styles are achieved, all contributing to the vast scope of Islamic Art.; thus, creating a richly diverse, yet unified concept. This diversity, however, is contained within a somewhat, restricted framework of techniques. Here I use the term 'restricted' very loosely, as each individual technique can be applied in such a way as to achieve an almost infinite number of transformations, for any given art form. I will be discussing this in more...

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