Islamic art and spirituality /

"With remarkable breadth of vision, Seyyed Hossein Nasr reveals for both Western and Muslim readers how each art form in the islamic tradition is based upon a science of nature concerned, not with the outer appearance of things, but with their inner reality. Ranging across calligraphy, painting...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nasr, Seyyed Hossein
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1987.
Temas:
Islamic arts.
Arts islamiques.
ART > Reference.
ART > Performance.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The relation between Islamic art and Islamic spirituality
  • Art and the Sacred. The spiritual message of Islamic calligraphy
  • The principle of unity and the sacred architecture of Islam
  • Sacred art in persian culture
  • Literature. Metaphysics, logic, and poety in the Orient
  • The fligh of birds to union : meditations upon 'Aṭṭār's Manṭiq Al-ṭayr
  • Rūmī, supreme poet and sage
  • Rūmī and the Sufi tradition
  • Music. Islam and music
  • The influence of Sufism on traditional Persian music
  • The Plastic Arts. The world of imagination and the concept of space in the persian miniature
  • The significance of the void in Islamic art
  • Postscript: The spiritual message of Islamic art.

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