Impact of Qur'ān upon Aesthetics and its Evolution: A Religio-Cultural Discourse

This paper intends to know how Qur'ânic Scripture influenced prevailing values of art and aesthetics with an exclusive Islamic worldview and contribution. It is an important aspect of Islamic civilization which may be studied from the very beginning of Islamic history along with later developments examining critically various characteristics of Islamic aesthetics. Employing analytical method, we came to know Qur'ânic Scripture as a precursor of Islamic aesthetics and raison d'etre for Islamic culture and civilization. It functions as super hand in the Islamic cultural ingredient changing ideas and thought totally or partially ameliorating prevailing social standards. This discourse makes it clear that the Islamic foundation of aesthetics is one of the contemporary matter of the Prophetic era. By dint of this study, one may become familiar with the concept that how art and aesthetics were welcomed, customized, innovated and transferred after their infiltration as per Islamic norms inculcating values. Islamic civilization warmly welcomed to any alien sorts of aesthetic reflection trimming its irrelevancy off in the light of Tawhld showing harmony exercising within its own domain, identity and unique weltanschauung. Hence, Qur'ânic Scripture vis-a-vis Islamic aesthetics has self-explanatory evidences of its origin, distinctive historical promotion and its identity in different cultural diversity.