Aisha's Cushion Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam

Name: Aisha's Cushion Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam
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ISBN: 9780674058064

ISBN-10: 0674058062

ISBN-13: 9780674058064

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jamal J. Elias

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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 representational religious art. Aisha’s Cushion emphasizes Islam’s perceptual and intellectual modes and in so doing offers the reader both insight into Islamic visual culture and a unique way of seeing the world.Aisha’s Cushion evaluates the controversies surrounding blasphemy and iconoclasm by exploring Islamic societies at the time of Muhammad and the birth of Islam; during early contact between Arab Muslims…

Book details

List price: $43.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 370
Size: 6.57" wide x 9.53" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Amin Tarzi is the Director of Middle East Studies, Marine Corps University.Jamal J. Elias is Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.



Preface on Abbreviations and Conventions


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


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index