What is Islamic Art
story, and the representational art as described by Plotinus, suggests that the identities assigned to each group may refer to t ...
When you behold the picture of Antioch, you are alarmed (as) between Byzantium and Persia, The Fates there waiting, whilst Anous ...
There was no difference in either form or color. The viewers stood in amazement, unable tofind an explanation. How could both th ...
mundane colors with a gold ground identical to that used to depict the garden outside the background window. The inclusion, with ...
[Mani] used to have recourse to religious knowledge that gave him [unequaled] piety. He was also so skilled in drawing and makin ...
flies out from the breath, and that light is freed from its prison.”Bahram said,“If that is so, then is death better than life?” ...
immediately following that of the competition. Mani sets offto China to proselytize. When the Chinese learn of this, they quickl ...
them, and then wished to offer a critique; so he took a piece of charcoal from the road and depicted next to those images a Zanj ...
With such techniques the king unlocked clear reflection from opaque metal. But when you look in this mirror, you can now see the ...
The images in the mirrors and the imaginative forms are not imprinted [in a place]. Instead they are suspended fortresses–a fort ...
These ideas had long-lasting repercussions. In his 1258 compilation entitledThe Rose Garden,Sa’di of Shiraz (1210–1292) describe ...
his maturity– Anatolia, from which he gets the sobriquetRum–by identifying them with intrinsic wisdom. Like al-Ghazali, Rumi all ...
that on which the shadow may appear, since if it were possible that that whereon it appears should cease to be, the shadow would ...
Ibn Arabi refers to the middle of the imaginal world of autonomous forms and images asmu’allaqa,“in suspense”:“not inherent in a ...
The seeing of a thing, itself by itself, is not the same as its seeing itself in another, as it were in a mirror...The Reality g ...
To mock and laugh at it these men have dared, To conquer their hearts there’s no hope in hell– The pearl is not harmed, only its ...
Similarly, Attar conflates true knowledge with sight, rendering direct teaching impossible–sight must be perceived rather than l ...
said to have met Suhrawardi in Baghdad, they are said to have had a“short silent meeting”after which the elder shaykh recognized ...
explains:“He called the production from nothing of this creation, the word (al-qalam), as is clear in the absolute (zawahir) sec ...
And it is for this reason that Plato, who was the greatest of the philosophers and the greatest of the Sufis of antiquity, did n ...
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