Photography and the flags of photographers in Islam

Muslims'' creativity in the art of photography is very late; For the difference of jurists about the prohibition of Islam to photograph, due to its embodiment that may resemble idols, which Islam sought to get rid of, but the Muslim artist did not stand idly by, so he sought to get out of this impasse through abstraction, so he had what he wanted, as he started drawing his brush with vegetable motifs and shapes Al -Kharaphi, but created a new art that the world has not known before, Europe has known it in its Arab name "Arabesque". The Islamic photography schools were numerous, and each school had its distinctive characteristics, and the topics of photography and its contexts varied, including: explaining the content of books with drawings and maps, decorating them with paintings, and photographing the princes and their families. Islamic art was famous for a number of artists such as "Bahzad"; Who was the first to use the signature below his paintings. The researcher Zaki Mohamed Hassan takes us on a trip to the past of art with this book, a beautiful, brief and very focused journey on the title and axis of the book. The editorial of the book begins on the chest of Islam and the opinion of jurisprudence and belief on the issue of photography, then he moves to artistic schools starting with the Iraqi school, passing through the Persian and Indian schools and ending in Turkish. Then the author tried to link historical events to artistic development and touched on the role of the sultans and the rulers of matters in the development of art and the support of artists.