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Islamic art has a recognisable aesthetic signature that somehow manages to express itself across an entire range of productions. The ‘language’ of this art, once established, was readily assimilated by each of the different nations and ethnicities that were brought within the Islamic sphere. Assimilated and built upon, because every region, at every period, produced its own versions of this super-national style.
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Wichmann, B., Wade, D. (2017). The Evolution of Style. In: Islamic Design: A Mathematical Approach. Mathematics and the Built Environment, vol 2. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69977-6_4
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