What is Islamic Art

Unlike Islamic poetry or Protestant engravings, the paintings no longer gloss theology. Rather than casting the wife as evil and ...

than seduction. The woman expected one deal, but got another. The mute language of the visual allows multivalence, folding a con ...

Dramatically popularizing theological sources, Jami produces precisely the type of good‘falsehood’or‘fiction’about the gods that ...

the gaze upward across the page, deflect the viewer’sgaze.Incontrasttothe European paintings, which direct the attention of the ...

world. It allows the viewer, like the essayist, to look at the world from a distance and take in an overview. As the viewer gaze ...

9 Mimetic Geometries Probably no form is more readily associated with Islamic art than the intertwined polyhedral isometric (eve ...

vocabulary, such as‘arabesque,’‘ornament,’and‘decoration,’which iden- tify it through European premises. The outmoded and imprec ...

9.1 Pattern as Pathology Despite geometry’s ubiquity, Islamic art historians have rarely considered it as productive of meaning. ...

Broadway Boogie Woogie(1942–1943).^13 [Plate 16,Figure 20] He snagged this comparison fromDas Bild in Islam(1971) by Turkish art ...

apparatus, both viewer and painter are abstracted from the practical and public sphere where alone the codes of recognition oper ...

this was expressed through the abstraction of trees; for Islamic artists, through understanding geometry as a microcosmic rendit ...

9.2 Isometric Geometry in Islamic Perceptual Culture Whereas the isometric polyhedral geometry today associated with Islamic cul ...

Iran.^26 Early examples of polyhedral isometric geometry occur at the ruins at Lashkar-i Bazar in Afghanistan traced to the Ghur ...

Nishapur shows similar, albeit simpler, geometric treatment. [Figure 22] An approximately contemporaneous Quran inscribed by ibn ...

geometric vocabulary by adding polygonal and circular polygonal move- ment. This seems to have informed several later visual rep ...

arithmetic, optics, astronomy, weights, and mechanics. Each field comprised a theoretical and an applied branch.^32 Surviving pa ...

cooking ingredients, metals, measures and shapes of animals and plants, the humors, the stars, crafted objects, shadows, and cel ...

counterpart, the acquisition of a physical craft has spiritual ramifications and ultimately participates in the creative force o ...

octagon, for example, does not necessarily signify a particular meaning distinct from a hexagon, although meaning can be attribu ...

It is manifest that everything in this world, whether it be substance or accident, produces rays in its own manner like a star.. ...