A study of Islamic leaders' strategic role in Islamic architectures

Abstract

The architecture issue is one of the important factors in the Islamic civilization that Muslims have considered a lot in religious leaders’ teachings. The applied purposes of this article are based on the religious Imams’ statements including scientific and practical approaches to the Islamic architectural harmonization, urban structures and elimination of factors that destroy urban civilizations. Religious leaders have commented on Islamic architecture leading to civilized societies. These comments include urbanization, making green spaces, building structures facing Qibla, building horizontal-oriented houses and avoiding some special manifestations in architecture such as statues. As one of the dimensions of art is architecture, Muslims have paid attention to the construction of mosques and monasteries, which are quite present in Islamic architecture. It is a descriptive and analytical article; and it refers to architectural modeling features that religious leaders have introduced in their speeches.