{
 "id": "concept/girih",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "girih",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الجيره (العقد الهندسي)",
  "en": "Girih"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "عقد هندسية إسلامية تبني نجوماً ومضلعات بخطوط متشابكة؛ شاعت في العمارة الصفوية والسلجوقية وتقوم على بلاطات جيره.",
  "en": "Islamic geometric strapwork building stars and polygons from interlacing bands; widespread in Seljuk and Safavid architecture, based on girih tiles."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "architecture",
  "arts-of-the-book"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "architectural_element",
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q17050256"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), arts lane; via Wikidata, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "عقد هندسية إسلامية تبني نجوماً ومضلعات بخطوط متشابكة؛ شاعت في العمارة الصفوية والسلجوقية وتقوم على بلاطات جيره. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/girih",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Islamic geometric knot patterns that build stars and polygons from interlacing lines. They were common in Safavid and Seljuk architecture and rest on girih tiles. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/girih",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/arabesque",
  "concept/islamic-geometric-patterns",
  "concept/mamluk-carpets",
  "object/ardabil-carpet",
  "building/al-jami-al-kabir-samarra",
  "building/bazaar-isfahan",
  "building/bazaar-tabriz",
  "building/bibi-khanum-mosque"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}