Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Vahideh vosoughzade ¹
• Mahbubeh Hasani Panah ²

¹ Ph.D. student of the philosophy of religious arts of the University of Religions and Qom

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Abstract

The depletion of the Islamic architectural structure of meaning will lead to the destruction of the nature of Islamic architecture. The space that this architecture is designed, in addition to using the elements and materials at its best, from all that is capable of conforming to the Islamic semantics and deep meaning, it uses some elements that carry the mystical concepts in the architectural arena. Water and mirror have a long history with Islamic architecture. Is it possible to indicate the water and the mirror in terms of the presence of Islamic architecture and the spaces used? Water as the noblest blessing the God has given to human beings, in addition to the cooling effect and the freshness of the Islamic architecture space, get the litter of deep mystical meanings and take the same share with the mirror in the reflection of patterns and images. The mirror is like water is used inside construction only for reflect images and patterns. The concept of mirror in Islamic mysticism has been raised very extensive and method of using that in Islamic architecture and the meanings that this kind of function takes is very deep and contemplative. In this investigation we trying to pose and explained the wisdom of usage water and mirror in architecture.

Keywords

• water
• mirror
• Islamic architecture
• mysticism
• symbol
• wisdom