THE OTTOMAN INFLUENCE ON THE ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL LIFE IN MOROCCO DURING THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

Abstract: The present research aims at observing the most important cultural developments in Morocco in the contemporary period through the transfer of the Ottoman influences issued from the East. This is due to the civilizational evolution, witnessed by the Ottoman empire in different fields including the fields of buildings, embroidering, cooking, and even in the ceremony arts, This is because the Ottoman Empire was the center of governance of the Islamic world, at highlighting this study as a new academic study. Through defining and studying these artistic developments represented in the entry of some architectural plans in the building's art. Then, the evolution of the Moroccan tissue through the emergence of some artistic forms that were famous for the Ottomans and inspired from vegetarian empire and also from the ceremonial aspects, which don't exist before, and introducing the ways in which these influences were transmitted to Moroccan culture, also addition to the annulations the theory of the Ottoman influence on the Moroccan arts and cultural. Keywords: Ottoman Empire; Morocco; building arts; embroidering; transfer.