Aisha's cushion : religious art, perception, and practice in Islam / Jamal J. Elias

Author: Elias, Jamal J.
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Physical Description: x, 404 pages, 8 pages of plates : 8 illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

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.

Subject(s)

Islam and art
Islamic art
Figurative art—Islamic countries
Idols and images in art

ISBN

9780674058064 (alk. paper)
0674058062 (alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-392) and index.

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