Naẓar:Vision, Belief, and Perception in Islamic Cultures

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Naẓar, 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 naẓar, 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-09
Mått:155 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt:692 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Islamic History and Civilization
Antal sidor:318
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004499478

Utforska kategorier

Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Mellanösterns historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Samer Akkach, Ph.D (1992), FAHA, is Professor of architectural history and theory and Founding Director of the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) at the University of Adelaide. His many works on Islamic intellectual history include ʿIlm: Science, Religion, and Art in Islam (UAP 2019).

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceNotes to the ReaderList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAperture: Terms, Concepts, and DiscourseSamer Akkach1 Naẓar: The Seen, the Unseen, and the UnseeableSamer Akkach2 Naẓar, Subjectivity, and ‘The Gaze’Wendy M.K. Shawpart 1: The Eye of the Heart3 Human Looking, Divine Gaze: Naẓar in Islamic SpiritualityStephen Hirtenstein4 Seeing with ‘The Eyes of the Heart’: dhikr and fikr as Sources of Insight in Indonesian Islamic ArtVirginia Hookerpart 2: The Eye of the Mind5 Transparency: Ibn Al-Haytham’s Manāẓir and Visual Perception of BeautyEllen Philpott-Teo6 Veiling: Ibn Al-Qaṭṭān’s Aḥkām and the Rules Concerning SeeingSamer Akkachpart 3: Evil Eye, Talismanic Seeing7 May the Envier’s Eye be BlindSakina Nomanbhoy8 Talismanic Seeing: The Induction of Power in Indonesian Zoomorphic ArtJames Bennettpart 4: Gazing Eye, Imaginative Seeing9 The Artist’s Gaze: Visual Representations of the Mughal Hunting LandscapeShaha Parpia10 Vernacular Subjectivity as a Way of Seeing: Visualising Bijapur in Nujūm al-ʿUlūm and Kitāb-i-NaurasSushma GriffinIndex