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Symmetry: Culture and Science
Volume 31, Number 2, pages 117-176 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2020_2_117

COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN TURKISH AND MOROCCAN ORNAMENTAL PATTERNS FROM THE 11^th TO THE 20^th CENTURIES

Youssef Aboufadil^1*, Abdelmalek Thalal¹, Nermin Şaman Doğan², Semra Ide³, Yunus Koç⁴

¹ Department of Physics, Cadi Ayyad University – Marrakech – Morocco.
E-mail: y.aboufadil@uca.ma; thalal@uca.ac.ma

² Department of History of Art, Hacettepe University, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey.
E-mail: nerminsd@hacettepe.edu.tr

³ Department of Physics Engineering, Hacettepe University, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey.
E-mail: side@hacettepe.edu.tr

⁴ Institute of Turkish Studies, Hacettepe University, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey.
E-mail: yunusk@hacettepe.edu.tr

^* corresponding author

Abstract: This article is devoted to Islamic ornamental patterns in Turkey and Morocco developed at different epochs and in distant areas under the reign of several dynasties ethnically different but having in common the Islamic culture. These two countries can be considered as representatives of the Islamic art of the Eastern and Western Muslim world. The purpose of this article is to analyse and compare the three themes of decoration encountered in Turkey and Morocco: calligraphy, stylized floral and geometric patterns. Our analysis, classification and comparison were mainly focused on symmetry groups of finite and infinite patterns and the Muqarnas (Stalactites). The materials, the colours used and the historical aspect were also briefly discussed along the paper.

Keywords: Islamic art, ornamental patterns, symmetry, point groups, rosettes, friezes, crystallographic patterns, calligraphy, Muqarnas.

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