الفن الإسلامي : دراسة نقدية لآراء المستشرق تيتوس بوركهارت

Abstract EN

I tried in this article to study opinions of some orientalists about the Islamic art though i have chosen Titus Burckhardt who gave a great importance to this art, where he tried to know the intellectual background which surrounded the art but it seems that he failed in his understanding .he focuses only in the artistic shape to some spiritual and metaphysic ideas and more than this, he considered the Islamic art as a born from the religious people and conservatism found in the abstraction method and uses it to express the unity of god through different symbols .

he tried also in his study to the Islamic art by interpreting some artistic formations in the context of metaphysical imaginations, where he fail the interpretation, it was limited in the symbolic way and its relation with the with Sufi heritage in the forbidden of the of the figurative art.

from this view the reader will know without any doubt the weakness of his ideas which I think it missed the least understanding befitting the philosophy of this art and its relationship to the Islamic religion.