What is Islamic Art

racialization and denigration ofIslam,thisemphasisonspecificity marks a subtly oppositional politics, yet denies the possibility ...

0.4 Islam, Poetry, and Perceptual Culture This book resituates the term‘Islamic’in the category‘Islamic art history’ as equivale ...

of Islamic rule, local ethnic groups, non-Muslims, and recent converts enfolded knowledge from multiple sources into Islamic int ...

nineteenth century to the modern era. The understanding of original text as scripture directly establishing norms presumes a rel ...

meantime, their private guard, the Janissaries, followed the Bektashi order. The Safavid dynasty (1501–1736) legitimated itself ...

Supplementing traditional categories such as period and style governing established art-historical analysis, the trans-temporal ...

primary artistic vehicle in the Islamic world.^65 The preeminent philoso- pher Abu‘Ali al-Husain ibn Sina (980–1037) describes p ...

“What is a painting? What is its relation to perception? To power? To tradition?”^70 At the time, this call informed the growth ...

addressed in this book, it also includes the confluence of interior and exterior spaces, discourses of generosity and nourishmen ...

Islamic art perceptual culture can do much more than indicate a shared humanity that any non-racist never should have doubted in ...

of situating them in a cosmology in which our mundane physical world is but a small cross-section of creation. Setting research ...

philosophical traditions inherited through late antiquity. This observation institutes two themes in the work: the affinities of ...

Chapter 7examines the trope of the ephemeral image, transcended on the journey to truth. Examples include stories of identifying ...

through Islamic discourses will play against our accustomed melodies of art history, evoking harmonies and dissonances so that w ...

1 The Islamic Image Someone otherwise ignorant about Islam often knows two things: Muslim women must veil; and Islam prohibits i ...

make presence or absence of particular features a necessary condition for something to be an image? Surely you realize that imag ...

This has enhanced the impression of Islam as an independent entity distinct from precedents and perennially corrupted after its ...

iconography, executed in mosaic and three-dimensional sculpture, in Umayyad architecture underscores cultural continuity with Ro ...

caliphate in the Levant. Surviving members of the Umayyad dynasty migrated to North Africa and Spain, where they continued to ru ...

thefirst texts translated was Aristotle’sTopics, which introduced classical methods of disputation into the Abbasid administrati ...