Islamic aesthetics an introduction
The reader is invited to view Islamic art as no more and no less than ordinary art, neither better nor worse than anything else that counts as art. It follows that there are no special techniques required in Islamic aesthetics as compared with any other form of aesthetics.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press
2004
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| Series: | The New Edinburgh Islamic surveys
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Table of Contents:
- Eleven common mistakes about Islamic art
- God as creator, calligraphy and symbolism
- Religion, style and art
- Literature
- Music
- Home and garden
- The miraculousness of the Qur'an
- Philosophy and ways of seeing
- Interpreting art, interpreting Islam, interpreting philosophy.