Quiddity and Ontology Dimensions of Islamic City from the Perspective of Islamic Texts

Islamic city has a specific space from the viewpoint of the nature and structure. Since early twentieth century, it has been noticed by researchers and it has been received a separate topic among the urban developers and researchers. So far, broad researches have been conducted about an Islamic city by Muslim and non-Muslim thinkers and they have considered certain regulations and standards in accordance with the Islamic principles and values different from other cities. It can be learned from the various verses of holy Qur-an and Islamic traditions, deep meaning and concepts about the nature of Islamic city. So, the purpose of this article is to elaborate the quiddity and ontology of the Islamic city through putting forth this question: What are the quiddity(understanding the innate dimensions) and ontology(understanding the being aspects) dimensions of Islamic city from the perspective of Islamic texts (verses and traditions)? This article has been developed in the methodology of review-analysis and with the help of field and library tools and using the Islamic texts. The result of the research is that with regard to basic concepts of Islam such as unity, justice, security, privacy, humiliation, naturalism and lack of following the strangers’ models, it is possible to divide the Islamic city from the viewpoint of receiving influence from these concepts into two quiddity and ontology dimensions. The quiddity dimension deals with the study of the identity, attribute and physical dimensions of Islamic city and the ontology dimension, deals with the dimensions of the manifestation of the presence of being elements and individual and collective actions of the Muslims in agreement with the aforementioned principles.