TY - BOOK AU - Shaima Sobhy Gomma AU - Kerstin Alexander , TI - Applying Sufi concepts on contemporary pattern design / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Shaima Sobhy Gomma , N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - German University - Faculty of Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research - Department of Applied Sciences and Arts N2 - Without trying to connect with one's soul, a human will continue to be incomplete. Searching for one's soul is so close to the designer's task of creation, as both seek the unseen and the inside meanings and try to express the objects around them some way or another by using many concepts (imaginary or creative). This research discusses design concepts through imagination and creativity perspectives; it also tackles how the sufi philosophy provides many concepts which are similar to design ones UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -