Konsep seni Islam Sayid Hussein Nasr

Sayid Husein Nasr divided art into three parts: pure art, traditional art and religious art. Islamic art included in pure art relates to the principle of cosmos unity and the principle of individual life unity and society. Because of that, according to Nasr, thinking about Islamic art is not based on material and social-political experience that scopes on the inner reality of al Qur'an. On the other hand, Islamic art is also based on wisdom or knowledge inspired by spiritual values, therefore Islamic art can be made as a result of khazain al ghaib. Because of that, islamic art always reflected on religious values and explained spiritual qualities. Actually, there are four functions which carry out by Islamic art. 1) Aims a blessed as the cause of spiritual relation with Islamic spiritual dimension; 2) Remembering presence of the God in everywhere peoples are; (3) As criteria to evaluate social movement, cultural or politic that really Islamic or not; (4) to the determined step of intellectual relation and religious of society