Aesthetic Formations of Islamic Decoration in the Threshold Holy Military

Islamic decoration in religious shrines and shrines in general and in Iraq in particular was characterized by aesthetic features and special artistic methods that combined highlighting the sanctity and spirituality of the religious shrine on the one hand, and artistic creativity that provokes contemplation of the works of the Muslim artist on the other hand, and the artist seeks to stimulate the senses of the visitor as a recipient of the message The aesthetic artistry of Islamic decorative arts and their aesthetic outputs, which transport the human being and elevate him to the realms of the kingdom and spiritual and intellectual contemplation.  Therefore, we will try in this study, which is tagged with (The Aesthetic Formations of Islamic Decoration in the Holy Military Shrine), to answer the following questions.  What are the aesthetic formations and symbolic connotations in the Islamic decorations that were executed on the walls of the Holy Military Shrine?  What are the techniques used to implement it?  Where the thesis consists of four chapters, the first of which included the main and subsidiary questions of the study and an indication of its importance and need for it, specifically the objectives of the study, which were limited to the following:  Explanation of the aesthetic and artistic formations of the Islamic decoration executed on the walls of the Holy Military Shrine.  As the decorations of the Holy Military Shrine have achieved its structural, plastic and functional identity and established formative spaces with the ability to add space through the remarkable diversity in the public space that was occupied in it, and achieved visual enrichment through excellence, plurality and spatial occupancy to visually organize shapes and units, with the difference in size and style. And the technique of implementation, which established a kinetic and visual aesthetic diversity according to a general unit that is artistically and objectively interconnected, and with symbolic and semiotic connotations that the recipient who is forced by that unit continuously follows the formation units one after another, as soon as they see it at first sight.  The limits of the research were limited to studying the types of Islamic decorations (vegetal, epigraphic, geometric, mixed) used in decorating the walls of the Holy Military Shrine in the historical city of Samarra, from its inception until 2007 AD.  The research also included more than 100 decorative designs that were carefully selected according to their diversity, to cover the four sides of the sanctuary and its entrances, as much as possible, and included multiple types of Islamic decorations that covered almost most of the artistic methods and decorative forms at the level of design and implementation after deleting the duplicates, and the researcher adopted In its analysis on the indicators of the theoretic framework and using the descriptive analytical method, it is the most appropriate to find out a number of structural and formative relationships and their impact on the artistic, aesthetic and functional construction of the decorative designs at the holy shrine, and to describe the decorative units within the formations and to record the dimensions of beauty and its features and methods of implementation, depending on the elements The construction and the principles of fine organization adopted by the artist for the works of his formative spaces, and recording the dimensions of functional beauty and its effects within each of the selected aesthetic formations.