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Author:

NazĐar (Brill Academic Publishers)

Title:

NazĐar : vision, belief, and perception in Islamic cultures / edited by Samer Akkach.

Publisher:

Brill,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xxi, 317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Islamic art--Themes, motives.
Visual perception--Cross-cultural studies.
Art and society--Islamic countries.
Art and society.
Islamic art--Themes, motives.
Visual perception.
Islamic countries.
Cross-cultural studies.

Other Authors:

Akkach, Samer, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The eye of the heart -- The eye of the mind -- Evil eye, talismanic seeing -- Gazing eye, imagininative seeing.

Summary:

"NazĐar, literally 'vision', is a unique Arabic-Islamic term/concept that offers an analytical framework for exploring the ways in which Islamic visual culture and aesthetic sensibility have been shaped by common conceptual tools and moral parameters. It intertwines the act of 'seeing' with the act of 'reflecting', thereby bringing the visual and cognitive functions into a complex relationship. Within the folds of this multifaceted relationship lies an entangled web of religious ideas, moral values, aesthetic preferences, scientific precepts, and socio-cultural understandings that underlie the intricacy of one's personal belief. Peering through the lens of nazĐar, the studies presented in this volume unravel aspects of these entanglements to provide new understandings of how vision, belief, and perception shape the rich Islamic visual culture. Contributors: Samer Akkach, James Bennett, Sushma Griffin, Stephen Hirtenstein, Virginia Hooker, Sakina Nomanbhoy, Shaha Parpia, Ellen Philpott-Teo, Wendy M.K. Shaw"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Islamic history and civilization, 0929-2403 ; volume 191

ISBN:

9004499474
9789004499478

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1273929513

LCCN:

2021048919

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)