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Aisha's cushion : religious art, perception, and practice in Islam /
"Media coverage of the Danish cartoon crisis and the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan left Westerners with a strong impression that Islam does not countenance depiction of religious imagery. Jamal J. Elias corrects this view by revealing the complexity of Islamic attitudes toward represent...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: the promise of a meaningful image
- Representation, resemblance and religion
- The icon and the idol
- Iconoclasm, iconophobia and Islam
- Idols, icons and images in Islam
- Beauty, goodness, and wonder
- Alchemy, appearance and essence
- Dreams, visions and the imagination
- Sufism and the metaphysics of resemblance
- Words, pictures and signs
- Legibility, iconicity and monumental writing.