Manifestation Of Islamic Wisdom Foundations in Iranian Arts and Crafts

As the Iranian thinking puts it, the etiology of art and crafts has never, per se, been regarded an independent branch of wisdom; rather, it falls in the category of virtues and manliness. This train of thought was transformed by Iranian artists and craftsmen into an arena for the sake of closeness to the Supreme Divinity with the advent of Islam and by means of such transcendental concepts as goodness, beauty, order and embodiment of existential levels in the light of Divine Unity. Thus, the main research question was: In what moments is the origin of this transformation toward a transcendental view concealed as regards the working manner of the Iranian artists and craftsmen? In this connection, it is concluded that Iranian arts and crafts were transformed into a context for experiencing the aesthetics of a transcendental thinking by bright-minded professionals via such components as Fotovat-Nameh, i.e., books on Manliness and learning and teachings manners of techniques and craftsmanship. This research used a descriptive-analytical method and gathered data through library methods.