A master’s thesis at the College of Fine Arts, University of Basrah, examined the sculptural structures of Qur’anic texts. The thesis presented by the researcher (Mazen Jaber Matouk) included the topic of sculptural structures of Qur’anic texts by tracing the structures with their qualities and characteristics that constitute an important focus in the embodiment of those texts and the researcher’s achievement of a group of sculptural structures The same Quranic texts.
The thesis discussed several axes, including writing and sculpture, the elements and foundations of sculptural construction and their relationship to texts and sculptural structures of the Arabic letter (structural image).The thesis aims to complete sculptural works with structures that embody the Qur’anic texts.
The thesis concluded that the sculptural structures with Qur’anic texts are completely different from the sculptural works that do not carry the sacred texts or the Arabic letter, and that the sculptural material is distinguished by its elements and relationships when the Arabic letter enters it as well as when it merges with a sacred text or an honorable hadith.
