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

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization ; 191
• TeilnehmendeR: Akkach, Samer,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic History and Civilization ; 191.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (339 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes to the Reader -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Aperture: Terms, Concepts, and Discourse -- Chapter 1 Naẓar: The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unseeable -- Chapter 2 Naẓar, Subjectivity, and 'The Gaze' -- Part 1 The Eye of the Heart -- Chapter 3 Human Looking, Divine Gaze: Naẓar in Islamic Spirituality -- Chapter 4 Seeing with 'The Eyes of the Heart': dhikr and fikr as Sources of Insight in Indonesian Islamic Art -- Part 2 The Eye of the Mind -- Chapter 5 Transparency: Ibn al-Haytham's Manāẓir and Visual Perception of Beauty -- Chapter 6 Veiling: Ibn al-Qaṭṭān's Aḥkām and the Rules Concerning Seeing -- Part 3 Evil Eye, Talismanic Seeing -- Chapter 7 May the Envier's Eye be Blind -- Chapter 8 Talismanic Seeing: The Induction of Power in Indonesian Zoomorphic Art -- Part 4 Gazing Eye, Imaginative Seeing -- Chapter 9 The Artist's Gaze: Visual Representations of the Mughal Hunting Landscape -- Chapter 10 Vernacular Subjectivity as a Way of Seeing: Visualising Bijapur in Nujūm al-ʿUlūm and Kitāb-i-Nauras -- Index.