The art and architure of Abassid Dynasty

The abassid dynasty rulled in the muslim world almost five hundred years from 750-1258 The Abassids Administration was divided into two main periods the early Abassids and the later Abassids during the peroid of early Abassids the muslin became much prosperous in the field of intectual development .the early Abassids opens a new era in the field of science literature and art, During the Abbasid caliph Al mansur He founded many cities  and palaces in bagadad city, He is well known as the founder of capital city of Bagdad ,rusafa and khuld palace,He also founded a rafika city. During the time of caliph al mahadi He enlarged the building of Haram e kabba,during the period of harun rashid he built a hospital called as Bimarastan hospital.Besides the great caliph Al Mamun established the translation department called as Darul Hikmah House of wisdom in 830 AD

Art And Architure Under Abassids, Abassid rullars support Art and Literature

Art:

It was the period of al mamun one of The famous artist/ Calligraphist flourished in his time known as Ali Bin Ubaida Al Rihan He invented a script  which  was very famous in the Abbasid dynasty known as Rihani script

Ibn Muqla also got good name and fame in the field of calligraphy this person was flourished in times of Al Razi.

Earlier the script that was very famous called as rihani script consequently a great calligraphist ibn al Bawwab al sitri invented another new script known as Muhaqiq script this person devised this script only for the improvement of rihani script.

During the time of al Mutasim one of the great calligraphist flourished in his time called as the Yakut.

Under the abassid caliphate in north africa the style of great writing called as Qawarani and similarly in spain the writing came to be known as Andalusi.

Music under Abassids

Some abassid caliphs were of great patron of music in the court of caliph al Mahadi there were two  famous singers one named as Abdul Wahab siyat male singer another female singer was basbus.

Harun rashid in his the musician ibrahim mosel flourished. The Dananir was the another musician was in times of yahya barmakid. The person during abassid called as zalzal known as the master of music besides the later rullars of abassids such as Al Wathiq ,Muntasir ,Mutaz also were good Musicians.

Painting under Abassids

The Abassid rullar al mansur had established many palaces ,and He decorated some palaces with beautiful paintings He setup the dome of his palace with the figure of horsemen

The caliph al amin had also a great interest in paintings He had interest in the painting of lions ,dolphins ,eagles and boats.

AL Mutasim built a palace of samara this palace was well decorated with beautiful paintings with female figures and hunting scenes.

The caliph Mutawwikil built many palaces he appointed byzantine painters for the decoration of his palaces.

The abassid rullar al mutadir had a palace had 18 branches he decorated the palace with gold and silver’

 

Architecture, Features of Abassid Architecture

1 Al Mansur he founded the capital city of Bagdad Rafika city and khuld palace

2.Al Mutasim he founded the samara town in 836 AD

3.AL Mutasim also built jaswaq al khaqani palace

4.the  caliph al Mutawwakil built a great town called as jafaria town besides he established  Royal Masjid and Masjid of Abu dulaf

5.the caliph Mustansir established a university on his name called as Mustansiriyah university.

6 the caliph al mansur built a round city of bagadad in 767

 

Decline of Abassid Dynasty

The Abassid rule in the muslim world is to be  considered as the longest period in the history of islam.they rulled from 750-1258 there were many causes of the downfall of the abassid rule .the early rullars of the Abbasid dynasty were considered as the greatest rullars and were most competent and subjugated many areas and carried out utmost developmental work in all fields but when the period of later Abbasids started they mostly indulged in luxurious life,that became the one of the cause of the weakened of Abbasid empire ,besides the Abbasids mostly lost the power because of their defective military policies. In the early days of Abbasids they were given much preference khorasani troops than over Arab troops .when the leader of khorasani army Abu Muslim was killed during the period of al mansur ,the khorasani troops became very weak in the department of military,later on the Abbasids restored the policy of turfication of the army,when the turk army induced in the abassid force with the passage of time they  became most popular when the sammara period got started during abassids the seven abassid caliphs were killed by turk generals. Besides in the later period of the Abbasids there was entirely absence of cordial relation between the provinces and the central government. The another main cause of decline was the economic factor,the greatest cause regarding the decline of the abassid that was the mongols invasion upon muslim world.

The  Mongols siege of bagadad took place in 1258  the mongols army were under the command of Hulagu Khan,He had instructions from his brother Khagan mongol to attack on bagadad in order to further extention of their rule similarly he followed the instructions of his brother and started to attack on bagadad .earlier the mongols asked to abassid rullars to accept their rule and to become submissive of mongols rule, when Abassids rejected their demand consequently it became the main cause regarding the mongols invasion on muslim world particularly on bagadad.with the result all intectual developments of muslims were destroyed by the mongols by this invasion and Bagadad was capatured by mongols.