Should Islam be given more credit...

[cratehorus]

People have tried to take credit away from the Muslims by saying Hindus were the one who made it and also claiming it's a Hindu temple. These have been proven to be a hoax, thankfully.

who said this?

In my opinion, it should be known as an Islamic architecture.

I thought it was?

Even Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom agree to that in their book 'The Art and Architecture of Islam (1994)'. There are more authors who agree to the fact that it should be known as an Islamic architecture.

that's because.... it is?

So my question is, should celebrities/visitors be told that it's a religious palace rather than a historical palace? There is much more to the Taj Mahal than a man building it for his wife. It's a religious palace (infleunced by Islam) IMO.

isn't historical better than religous?

I'm confused..... what is the question?

[apostopare]

Alright, so we all know the Taj Mahal was built by Muslims. It looks like a mosque, has a minaret, has the word 'Allah' at the top of it, has Quranic verses in literally every room inside. Not to mention there are mosques near it indicating a religious importance.

Of course, nowadays it's treated as a historical monument rather than a religious one. People have tried to take credit away from the Muslims by saying Hindus were the one who made it and also claiming it's a Hindu temple. These have been proven to be a hoax, thankfully.

In my opinion, it should be known as an Islamic architecture. Even Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom agree to that in their book 'The Art and Architecture of Islam (1994)'. There are more authors who agree to the fact that it should be known as an Islamic architecture.

So my question is, should celebrities/visitors be told that it's a religious palace rather than a historical palace? There is much more to the Taj Mahal than a man building it for his wife. It's a religious palace (infleunced by Islam) IMO.

There is no such thing as "Islamic architecture". The Koran has no manuals for designing any specific Islamic architecture style.

Religions in this world borrow architectural style from their ancestors or other culture.

Taj Mahal is not built using an Islamic architecture style, it is a Mughal architecture style, a style that combines elements from Persian, Ottoman Turkish and Indian architectural styles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal

Islam borrows architectural style from Sassanid, Byzantine and Spanish Germanic Visigoths and many other local cultures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_arc...Influences

In Central Java, a lot of the mosques are designed using a traditional Javanese architectural style, which originated from Hindi kingdom era. There is even a mosque in Kudus which has Hindi temple in it.

This just shows you how religion is really man-made. They copy human's ideas. If it really comes from the supposedly unique god, the religious architecture styles should be unique, not borrowing from human's ideas.

[Fryslân]

Of course, nowadays it's treated as a historical monument rather than a religious one. People have tried to take credit away from the Muslims by saying Hindus were the one who made it and also claiming it's a Hindu temple. These have been proven to be a hoax, thankfully.

Were any Hindus hurt whilst proving that it was a hoax?

[paulpablo]

I think muslims should be given credit for the building of it if they built it, but islam is a religion based totally on the teachings of the quran, this is the one common denominator all muslims have despite the different views on what the quran is actually saying.
The quran as much as im aware doesnt contain instructions on architecture or building, although at one time the arabs i think were considered to be at the forefront of science and technology i think its pretty obvious they didnt come to this knowledge through the quran.

[CapnAwesome]

I don't know anyone who says that the Taj Mahal was built by Hindus. However that being said Islam shouldn't get any credit. What does the religion have to do with the architecture at all? Does the Qu'ran contain one iota of new architectural information that helped build the Taj Mahal? Do we call Buckingham palace a Christian building? It's absurd to credit a religion for something that it doesn't have anything to do with.

[paulpablo]

In my opinion its as relevant as giving moustaches credit for the vocal talents of freddy mercury, but then you have to remember hitler had a moustache too.

[KichigaiNeko]

In my opinion its as relevant as giving moustaches credit for the vocal talents of freddy mercury, but then you have to remember hitler had a moustache too.

In other-words... none at all?

[TheCreator]

Indeed, I think alot of people forget that muslims ( people who happen to have been born into islam ) have been an important group, and ruled several great imperial powers. This is something that we cannot deny. But I'd say this is ''despite islam'' rather than ''because of islam''.


I dont think the religion is the things that motivates humans into these kind of things. Going to church, or even throwing battery acid in someone's face may be religiously motivated. But I dont think we can give religion credit for things such as buildings or agriculture, or whatever. Islam as a faith have brought human very little. But there have been a big number of muslims who have contributed to the growing wellbeing of this world. That these people have dissapeared due to jihadists and so on is another topic.