The paper deals with the analysis of historical facts within initial development of Islamic cultural-civilizational circle, which evidently indicates the existence of two possible theoretical approaches in observing cognitive productive-reflective representation of elements of visual art/practice of homini islamici. It refers to the dogmatic-classical approach versus a practice established centuries ago and fulfilled in the form of order, where the substance of  emergence of a creative action is elaborated by means of the cognitive modality of the qadar/ṣināʿat discourse, together with the activating figurality based on the idea of a closed concept of collaborative-cognitive practice.

We will employ the most obvious existence and use of figural conception of cognitive productive-reflective representation within the modality of qadar/ṣināʿat discourse, created as illustrations for contexts of narrative (the manuscript form of presentation ‒ an order of dignitaries) to try to explain substantiality or possible unsubstantiality of figural representations. Besides, we will draw attention to a lack of an appropriate theory of homo islamicus’s  aesthetics in his action/ṣināʿat, as well as to the form of the possibly first preserved figural achievement within the qadar/ṣināʿat discourse of cognitive efforts - illustrations from the Book of Portraits of Sasanian Kings made in 731  A.D. We will also draw attention to the issue of attempts of homo islamicus’s search for an appropriate form of visual expression suited to the superior/conventional textual content, its visual preservation and possible transmission  within spiritual and multidisciplinary research truth, and the attempt to explain the issue of bringing Islamic aesthetics to evidence; the issue of sense and sources of the insight homo islamicus’s mind into the state of affairs.

Key words:‘Islamic art', qadar/ṣināʿat, aesthetics of acton/ṣināʿat, religious aesthetic philosophy, cognitive productive-reflective representation, spiritual code, form of order, figural planarity, ‘Book of Portraits of Sasanian Kings’, visual-stylized reconstruction of reality