Islamic Patterns

An international authority shows how patterns found in Islamic art reveal the cosmological laws affecting all creation.

Islamic Patterns An Analytical and Cosmological Approach Forword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Introduction 1. The Point of Departure 2. The Manifestation of Shape 3. Magic Squares 4. Pattern and Cosmology 5. The Pentagon 6. The Tetractys 7. The Mathematics of two-dimensional Space-filling 8. The Circle and Cosmic Rhythms 9. Specimen Islamic Patterns

Foreword	p. 6
Introduction	p. 7
The Point of Departure	p. 9
The Manifestation of Shape	p. 24
Magic Squares	p. 42
Pattern and Cosmology	p. 57
The Pentagon	p. 74
The Tetractys	p. 104
The Mathematics of two-dimensional Space-filling	p. 117
The Circle and Cosmic Rhythms	p. 150
Specimen Islamic Patterns	p. 172
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