The Arts Of Islamic Civilization

Author : Ismail Raji al-Faruqi
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781565645585

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In dealing with any aspect of Islamic civilization, its final raison d'etre and creative base must be seen as resting on the Qur'ān. Islamic culture is, in fact, a "Qur'ānic culture"; for its definitions, its structures, its goals, and its methods for execution of those goals are all derived from that series of revelations from God to the Prophet Muhammad. Without that revelation, the culture could not have been generated; without that revelation, there could have been neither an Islamic religion, an Islamic state, an Islamic philosophy, an Islamic law, an Islamic society, nor an Islamic political or economic organization. Just as surely as these aspects of Islamic culture may be rightly seen as Qur'ānic in basis and motivation, in implementation and goal, the arts of Islamic civilization should also be viewed as aesthetic expressions of similar derivation and realization. Yes, the Islamic arts are indeed Qur'ānic arts. How then are the Islamic arts to be seen as "Qur'ānic" expressions in color, in line, in movement, in shape, and in sound? This is the subject of this work.

Author : Nasser D. Khalili
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Islamic Empire
ISBN : 9774161947

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Islamic Art and Culture by Nasser D. Khalili Pdf

The artistic achievements of the Islamic world chronicled over fourteen centuries.

Author : Nuzhat Kazmi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131299070

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Islamic Art by Nuzhat Kazmi Pdf

Islamic Art is a product of certain forceful factors that created a cultural milieu which was centred on the religious ethos and intellectual affinities inspired by Islam and its followers. No art can grow in isolation and nor did Islamic art. From its early manifestations to this date, it has taken from other cultural traditions and has also given to different social structures and visual languages of the world. This book looks at the artistic output of the Islamic civilization through the centuries, from the time of its inception to its interpretations in the contemporary world. The author has brought the inclusive as well as the exclusive qualities of this great tradition of the world with the empathy and seriousness that this unique art demand.

Author : Iftikhar Dadi
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780807895962

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Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia by Iftikhar Dadi Pdf

This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the region's intellectual, cultural, and political developments. Art historian Iftikhar Dadi here explores the art and writings of major artists, men and women, ranging from the late colonial period to the era of independence and beyond. He looks at the stunningly diverse artistic production of key artists associated with Pakistan, including Abdur Rahman Chughtai, Zainul Abedin, Shakir Ali, Zubeida Agha, Sadequain, Rasheed Araeen, and Naiza Khan. Dadi shows how, beginning in the 1920s, these artists addressed the challenges of modernity by translating historical and contemporary intellectual conceptions into their work, reworking traditional approaches to the classical Islamic arts, and engaging the modernist approach towards subjective individuality in artistic expression. In the process, they dramatically reconfigured the visual arts of the region. By the 1930s, these artists had embarked on a sustained engagement with international modernism in a context of dizzying social and political change that included decolonization, the rise of mass media, and developments following the national independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. Bringing new insights to such concepts as nationalism, modernism, cosmopolitanism, and tradition, Dadi underscores the powerful impact of transnationalism during this period and highlights the artists' growing embrace of modernist and contemporary artistic practice in order to address the challenges of the present era.

Author : Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg
Publisher : M. A. J. Beg
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Islamic art
ISBN : 0954188268

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Fine Arts of Islamic Civilization by Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg Pdf

Contents include: 'The Religious Music of Islam', 'The Lawfulness of Painting in Early Islam', 'Muslim Art', 'Islam and Architecture' and 'Religious Art of Islamic Civilization'.

Author : Robert Hillenbrand
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0500203059

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Islamic Art and Architecture by Robert Hillenbrand Pdf

A guide to the architecture, calligraphy, ceramics, and other arts of Islam covers a thousand years of history and an area stretching from the Atlantic to the borders of India and China

Author : Jonathan M. Bloom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351942584

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Early Islamic Art and Architecture by Jonathan M. Bloom Pdf

This volume deals with the formative period of Islamic art (to c. 950), and the different approaches to studying it. Individual essays deal with architecture, ceramics, coins, textiles, and manuscripts, as well as with such broad questions as the supposed prohibition of images, and the relationships between sacred and secular art. An introductory essay sets each work in context; it is complemented by a bibliography for further reading.

Author : Lizann Flatt
Publisher : Life in the Early Islamic Worl
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778721744

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Arts and Culture in the Early Islamic World by Lizann Flatt Pdf

Explores art in the Islamic world, including architecture, decoration, household objects, books, music, and illustrations.

Author : Atif Toor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1615909923

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Islamic Culture by Atif Toor Pdf

Examines The Rich And Forgotten Contributions Of Islamic Art And Culture.

Author : Sara Kuehn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004209725

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The Dragon in Medieval East Christian and Islamic Art by Sara Kuehn Pdf

This book is a pioneering work on a key iconographic motif, that of the dragon. It examines the perception of this complex, multifaceted motif within the overall intellectual and visual universe of the medieval Irano-Turkish world. Using a broadly comparative approach, the author explores the ever-shifting semantics of the dragon motif as it emerges in neighbouring Muslim and non-Muslim cultures.

Author : Annette Hagedorn,Avinoam Shalem
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047422815

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Facts and Artefacts - Art in the Islamic World by Annette Hagedorn,Avinoam Shalem Pdf

In this impressive collection honouring the German scholar of Islamic art Jens Kröger on his 65th birthday, Avinoam Shalem and Annette Hagedorn bring together twenty-five contributions from a highly distinguished group of experts on Islamic art and specialists of central and south Asian art. Unpublished artefacts and new interpretations are presented in this book.

Author : Doris Behrens-Abouseif,Stephen Vernoit
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004144422

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Islamic Art in the 19th Century by Doris Behrens-Abouseif,Stephen Vernoit Pdf

This collection of essays provides a timely reassessment of nineteenth-century Islamic art and architecture. The essays demonstrate that the arts of that era were vibrant and diverse, making ingenious use of native traditions and materials or adopting imported conventions and new technologies. However, traditionalists, revivalists and modernists all referred in one way or another to an Islamic heritage, whether to reinvent, revive or reject it. Beginning with an historical introduction and an assessment of changing attitudes towards the visual arts the following essays provide case studies of architecture and art in Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, sub-Saharan Africa, Iran, Central Asia, India and the Caribbean. They examine such issues as patronage, sources of artistic inspiration and responses to European art. The essays have a relevance and importance for our understanding of the societies and attitudes of that time, and have a direct bearing on the more general debate concerning cultural identity and the integration of modern ideas in the Muslim world. The book is richly illustrated with very many illustrations in black-and-white and in full colour.

Author : Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Islamic art
ISBN : OCLC:417132419

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Fine Arts in Islamic Civilization by Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg Pdf

Author : Oleg Grabar
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0860789225

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Islamic Visual Culture, 1100-1800 by Oleg Grabar Pdf

Islamic Visual Culture, 1100-1800 is the second in a set of four selections of studies by Oleg Grabar. Its focus is on the key centuries - the eleventh through fourteenth - during which the main directions of traditional Islamic art were created and developed and for which classical approaches of the History of Art were adopted. Manuscript illustrations and the arts of objects dominate the selection of articles, but there are also forays into later times like Mughal India and into definitions of area and period styles, as with the Mamluks in Egypt and the Ottomans, or into parallels between Islamic and Christian medieval arts.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870991110

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Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf