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Abstract Islamic art, when observed through the western lens of art history, is often seen as decorative and ornamental. This view sets up an opposition between Islamic art and general trends identified in western art since the Renaissance: the focus on representations of the human form, pictorial narrative, and spatial perspective. The treatment of pattern, which evolved and dourished from the tenth century onwards, is at once both universal within the Islamic world and su7ciently distinct from other cultural traditions that it may justifiably be characterized as Islamic.
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