Islam And Iconoclasm

Author : James Noyes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857734310

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The Politics of Iconoclasm by James Noyes Pdf

From false idols and graven images to the tombs of kings and the shrines of capitalism, the targeted destruction of cities, sacred sites and artefacts for religious, political or nationalistic reasons is central to our cultural legacy. This book examines the different traditions of image-breaking in Christianity and Islam as well as their development into nominally secular movements and paints a vivid, scholarly picture of a culture of destruction encompassing Protestantism, Wahhabism, and Nationalism. Beginning with a comparative account of Calvinist Geneva and Wahhabi Mecca, The Politics of Iconoclasm explores the religious and political agendas behind acts of image-breaking and their relation to nationhood and state-building. From sixteenth-century Geneva to urban developments in Mecca today, The Politics of Iconoclasm explores the history of image-breaking, the culture of violence and its paradoxical roots in the desire for renewal. Examining these dynamics of nationhood, technology, destruction and memory, a historical journey is described in which the temple is razed and replaced by the machine.

Author : Joseph Gutmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015029875823

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The Image and the Word by Joseph Gutmann Pdf

Seven studies of iconoclasm.

Author : Ondrej Beranek
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474417587

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Temptation of Graves in Salafi Islam by Ondrej Beranek Pdf

This book explains the current destruction of graves in the Islamic world and traces the ideological sources of iconoclasm in their historical perspective, from medieval theological and legal debates to contemporary Islamist movements including ISIS.

Author : Mike Humphreys
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004462007

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A Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm by Mike Humphreys Pdf

Twelve scholars contextualize and critically examine the key debates about the controversy over icons and their veneration that would fundamentally shape Byzantium and Orthodox Christianity.

Author : Christiane J. Gruber
Publisher : Gingko Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : ART
ISBN : 1909942340

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The Image Debate by Christiane J. Gruber Pdf

"The images released by The Islamic State of militants smashing statues at ancient sites were a horrifying aspect of their advance across Northern Iraq and Syria during 2015-16. Their leaders justified this act of iconoclasm by arguing that such actions were divinely decreed in Islam, a notion that has remained fixed in the public consciousness. The Image Debate is a collection of thirteen essays that examine the controversy surrounding the use of images in Islamic and other religious cultures and seek to redress some of the misunderstandings that have arisen. Written by leading academics from the United States, Australia, Turkey, Israel and the United Kingdom, the book opens with an introduction by the editor Christiane Gruber, who sets the subject in context with a detailed examination of the debates over idols and the production of figural images in Islamic traditions. The book is divided into three sections: the first deals with pre-modern Islamic practices and anxieties concerned with image-making; the second addresses similar issues in Judaism, in Christianity during the Byzantine period, in pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia, and in Hindu and Buddhist contexts in South Asia; and the third brings the reader back to Islamic lands by examining traditions of figural representation in the modern and contemporary periods." -- Publisher's website

Author : Jamal J. Elias
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674070660

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Aisha’s Cushion by Jamal J. Elias Pdf

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 and Byzantine Christians; in medieval Anatolia and India; and in modern times. Elias’s inquiry then goes further, to situate Islamic religious art in a global context. His comparisons with Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu attitudes toward religious art show them to be as contradictory as those of Islam. Contemporary theories about art’s place in society inform Elias’s investigation of how religious objects have been understood across time and in different cultures. Elias contends that Islamic perspectives on representation and perception should be sought not only in theological writings or aesthetic treatises but in a range of Islamic works in areas as diverse as optics, alchemy, dreaming, calligraphy, literature, vehicle and home decoration, and Sufi metaphysics. Unearthing shades of meaning in Islamic thought throughout history, Elias offers fresh insight into the relations among religion, art, and perception across a broad range of cultures.

Author : Oleg Grabar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000939316

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Early Islamic Art, 650–1100 by Oleg Grabar Pdf

Early Islamic Art, 650-1100 is the first in a set of four volumes of studies by Oleg Grabar. Between them they bring together more than eighty articles, studies and essays, work spanning half a century. Each volume takes a particular section of the topic, the three subsequent volumes being entitled: Islamic Visual Culture, 1100-1800; Islamic Art and Beyond; and Jerusalem. Reflecting the many incidents of a long academic life, they illustrate one scholar's attempt at making order and sense of 1400 years of artistic growth. They deal with architecture, painting, objects, iconography, theories of art, aesthetics and ornament, and they seek to integrate our knowledge of Islamic art with Islamic culture and history as well as with the global concerns of the History of Art. In addition to the articles selected, each volume contains an introduction which describes, often in highly personal ways, the context in which Grabar's scholarship developed and the people who directed and mentored his efforts. The present volume concentrates primarily on documents provided by archaeology understood in its widest sense, and including the study of texts with reference to monuments or to the contexts of these monuments. The articles included represent major contributions to the understanding of the formative centuries of Islamic art, focusing on the Umayyad (661-750) and Fatimid (969-1171) dynasties in Greater Syria and in Egypt, and on the Mediterranean or Iranian antecedents of early Islamic art. Historical, cultural, and religious themes, including the role of court ceremonies, the growth of cities, and the importance of the Qur'an, are introduced to help explain how a new art was formed in the central lands of the Near East and how its language can be retrieved from visual or written sources.

Author : Noah Charney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137407573

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Art Crime by Noah Charney Pdf

Since the Second World War, art crime has shifted from a relatively innocuous, often ideological crime, into a major international problem, considered by some to be the third-highest grossing criminal trade worldwide. This rich volume features essays on art crime by the most respected and knowledgeable experts in this interdisciplinary subject.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588394576

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Byzantium and Islam by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

This magnificent volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. At the beginning of the 7th century, the Empire's southern provinces, the vibrant, diverse areas of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, were at the crossroads of exchanges reaching from Spain to China. These regions experienced historic upheavals when their Christian and Jewish communities encountered the emerging Islamic world, and by the 9th century, an unprecedented cross- fertilization of cultures had taken place. This extraordinary age is brought vividly to life in insightful contributions by leading international scholars, accompanied by sumptuous illustrations of the period's most notable arts and artifacts. Resplendent images of authority, religion, and trade—embodied in precious metals, brilliant textiles, fine ivories, elaborate mosaics, manuscripts, and icons, many of them never before published— highlight the dynamic dialogue between the rich array of Byzantine styles and the newly forming Islamic aesthetic. With its masterful exploration of two centuries that would shape the emerging medieval world, this illuminating publication provides a unique interpretation of a period that still resonates today.

Author : Ondřej Beránek,Pavel Ťupek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN : 1474417590

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The Temptation of Graves in Salafi Islam by Ondřej Beránek,Pavel Ťupek Pdf

In various parts of the Islamic world over the past decades virulent attacks have targeted Islamic funeral and sacral architecture. Rather than being random acts of vandalism, these are associated with the idea of performing one's religious duty as attested to in the Salafi/Wahhabi tradition and texts. Graves, shrines and tombs are regarded by some Muslims as having the potential to tempt a believer to polytheism, hence the duty to level the graves to the ground. In illuminating the ideology behind these acts, this text explains the current destruction of graves in the Islamic world and traces the ideological sources of iconoclasm in their historical perspective.

Author : Almir Ibrić
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3825810518

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For a Philosophy of Aniconism in the Islam by Almir Ibrić Pdf

In this first English text about (Islamic) philosophy and the topic of aniconism in Islam, interested readers will be informed about the existence, the sense as well as the qualitative but not quantitative effect of the aniconism on the so-called art of the Islam. In Islam, aniconism is regarded as a law of the revelation and it serves the searching for the good, for order, harmony and aesthetics of life, for God, the almighty creator of existence. Aniconism is much more than a ban of pictures! Is there also a connection between atomism, tattoous ruh, ijhaz, materialism and jahiliyya?

Author : Jeffrey Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351556590

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Negating the Image by Jeffrey Johnson Pdf

Why do people attack monuments and other public objects charged with authority by the societies that produced them? What do open assaults on images and artworks mean? Iconoclasm, the principled destruction of images, has recurred throughout human history as theory and practice. This book contains seven historical studies of the changing causes and meanings of iconoclasm and the radical transformations in the function of images it has brought about in societies around the world, from Ancient Egypt to Islamic India and Revolutionary Mexico, as well as Medieval and Reformation Europe. Scholars of art history, history and archaeology explore shifting definitions of art and the forms of representation in delineating varied forms of 'iconoclasm'.

Author : Angela Vanhaelen
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271050614

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The Wake of Iconoclasm by Angela Vanhaelen Pdf

"Explores the relationship between art and religion after the iconoclasm of the Dutch Reformation. Reassesses Dutch realism and its pictorial strategies in relation to the religious and political diversity of the Dutch cities"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Axel Langer
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3775747338

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In the Name of the Image by Axel Langer Pdf

Images are the cornerstone of culture. At a single glance, a society's understanding of itself is crystallized in them; they are the agents of a common perspective, as well as witnesses to it. At the same time, there is a whiff of ideology and distorted perception about them. In between the two poles of the crucifi x and the gold calf, there is a field of tension where Christianity and Islam dwell. The histories of both religions fluctuate between the extremes of idolatry and iconoclasm. Sometimes they lean in one direction, and sometimes in the other, while at other times they seek a conciliatory balance. Outside of theological debates, this opens up an area full of aesthetic distinctions and approaches. This exhibition catalogue offers a richly illustrated, thoroughly informative look at these unusual histories of art and their currency in the world today.

Author : Anthony Bryer,Judith Herrin
Publisher : Centre for Byzantine Studies University of Birmingham
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012417344

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Iconoclasm by Anthony Bryer,Judith Herrin Pdf