Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam



Persis Berlekamp

2011
BERLEKAMP, PERSIS.



Bestell-Nr: 1458016

EUR 56,80  in den Warenkorb

This original book untangles fundamental confusions about historical relationships among Islam, representational images, and philosophy. Closely examining some of the most meaningful and best preserved premodern illustrated manuscripts of Islamic cosmographies, Persis Berlekamp refutes the assertion often made by other historians of medieval Islamic art that, while representational images did exist, they did not serve religious purposes. The author focuses on widely disseminated Islamic images of the wonders of creation, ranging from angels to human-snatching birds, and argues that these illustrated manuscripts aimed to induce wonder at God's creation, as was their stated purpose.

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Ae-Islam