Islamic Art and Literature
Title | Islamic Art and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Oleg Grabar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
The six essays of this volume, edited by Grabar (Harvard U. and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton) and Robinson (U. of New Mexico) explore a hitherto neglected aspect of Islamic art: the interaction between text and image. Among the topics are the love story Bayad wa Riyad from 13C Spain (by Robinson), Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, 17C Persian narrative of sounds, and the visual imagination in classical Arabic biography. Each essay is followed by lengthy endnotes, but the volume is not indexed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Islamic Art, Literature, and Culture
Title | Islamic Art, Literature, and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Kuiper Manager, Arts and Culture |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2009-12-20 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1615300198 |
Discusses the art, architecture, literature, and culture of Islamic nations, including the development of Arabic calligraphy, literary elements in Islamic literature, and historic traditions of Islamic visual arts.
Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition
Title | Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Mohammed Hamdouni Alami |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2013-12-20 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0857731750 |
What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition? Mohammed Hamdouni Alami argues that Islamic art has historically been excluded from Western notions of art; that the Western aesthetic tradition's preoccupation with the human body, and the ban on the representation of the human body in Islam, has meant that Islamic and Western art have been perceived as inherently at odds. However, the move away from this 'anthropomorphic aesthetic' in Western art movements, such as modern abstract and constructivist painting, have presented the opportunity for new ways of viewing and evaluating Islamic art and architecture. This book questions the very idea of art predicated on the anthropocentric bias of classical art, and the corollary 'exclusion' of Islamic art from the status of art. It addresses a central question in post-classical aesthetic theory, in as much as the advent of modern abstract and constructivist painting have shown that art can be other than the representation of the human body; that art is not neutral aesthetic contemplation but it is fraught with power and violence; and that the presupposition of classical art was not a universal truth but the assumption of a specific cultural and historical set of practices and vocabularies. Based on close readings of classical Islamic literature, philosophy, poetry, medicine and theology, along with contemporary Western art theory, the author uncovers a specific Islamic theoretical vision of art and architecture based on poetic practice, politics, cosmology and desire. In particular it traces the effects of decoration and architectural planning on the human soul as well as the centrality of the gaze in this poetic view - in Arabic 'nazar'- while examining its surprising similarity to modern theories of the gaze. Through this double gesture, moving critically between two traditions, the author brings Islamic thought and aesthetics back into the realm of visibility, addressing the lack of recognition in comparison with other historical periods and traditions. This is an important step toward a critical analysis of the contemporary debate around the revival of Islamic architectural identity - a debate intricately embedded within opposing Islamic political and social projects throughout the world.
Colour, Light and Wonder in Islamic Art
Title | Colour, Light and Wonder in Islamic Art PDF eBook |
Author | Idries Trevathan |
Publisher | Saqi Books |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2020-02-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 086356190X |
A unique investigation into the aesthetics of colour in Islamic art revealing its deeper symbolic and mystical meanings. The experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has historically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevathan examines the language of colour in Islamic art and architecture in dialogue with its aesthetic contexts, offering insights into the pre-modern Muslim experience of interpreting colour. The seventeenth-century Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran, represents one of the finest examples of colour-use on a grand scale. Here, Trevathan examines the philosophical and mystical traditions that formed the mosque's backdrop. He shows how careful combinations of colour and design proportions in Islamic patterns expresses knowledge beyond that experienced in the corporeal world, offering another language with which to know and experience God. Colour thus becomes a spiritual language, calling for a re-consideration of how we read Islamic aesthetics.
Islamic Art and Spirituality
Title | Islamic Art and Spirituality PDF eBook |
Author | Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1987-02-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780887061752 |
This is the first book in the English language to deal with the spiritual significance of Islamic art including not only the plastic arts, but also literature and music. Rather than only dealing with the history of the various arts of Islam or their description, the author relates the form, content, symbolic language, meaning, and presence of these arts to the very sources of the Islamic revelation. Relying upon his extensive knowledge of the Islamic religion in both its exoteric and esoteric dimensions as well as the various Islamic sciences, the author relates Islamic art to the inner dimensions of the Islamic revelation and the spirituality which has issued from it. He brings out the spiritual significance of the Islamic arts ranging from architecture to music as seen, heard, and experienced by one living within the universe of the Islamic tradition. In this work the reader is made to understand the meaning of Islamic art for those living within the civilization which created it.
What is “Islamic” Art?
Title | What is “Islamic” Art? PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy M. K. Shaw |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 387 |
Release | 2019-10-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108474659 |
An alternate approach to Islamic art emphasizing literary over historical contexts and reception over production in visual arts and music.
Reflections
Title | Reflections PDF eBook |
Author | Ahdaf Soueif |
Publisher | Bloomsbury USA |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-05-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9789992142806 |
The riches of Islamic art celebrated by over 25 world-leading writers and thinkers from West and East. 25 leading writers and thinkers celebrate the riches of Islamic Art in a visually stylish volume produced with the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar and edited by Ahdaf Soueif, best-selling Booker-Prize shortlisted Egyptian-British novelist.