The Genesis of Plant Artifacts in the Art of Islam (Special Decoration to the Arabesque and Khatei Designs)

Islamic art is one of the glorious periods of art history and one of the most valuable human achievements in artistic arts. It includes various types of arts such as architecture, calligraphy, painting, ceramics, and the like. In an Islamic art, there is a lot of repetitive elements things such as using unrealistic geometric or graphic designs of flowers and plants known as Slavic. The Slavic motifs in Islamic art are often used as a symbol of the infinite nature that is God’s creature, as well as the intention of not representing and accurately immitting nature as usually mentions humility of artists who believed that the creation of perfection was only God’s special. The purpose of this study was firstly to study the emergence of vegetable motifs in the art of early Islam and their application, after that how symbols were abstracted. Along with, the extent to which these motifs were influenced from the previous era and their effect on contemporary times. In this research, which is a descriptive-analytical and the information is also arranged in the library and field-b ased way, the findings show that the Slavic motifs were firstly introduced by the prevalence of mankind’s imaging of Islam at the dawn of Islam, Sassanid art and, gradually, based on the special teachings of that era, abstract forms that influenced the contemporary period.