Naẓar : : vision, belief, and perception in Islamic cultures / / edited by Samer Akkach.
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&...
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| Superior document: | Islamic History and Civilization ; 191 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islamic History and Civilization ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (339 pages) |
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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.