The origins of visual culture in the Islamic world: aesthetics, art and architecture in early Islam

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (07) ◽  
pp. 53-2926-53-2926
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
Art And Architecture

The relevance of religion and the response to it: a study of religious perceptions in early Islam

1988 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-287
Author(s):  
Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Commitment ◽  
Social Protest ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
Medieval Islam

What did the Muslim citizen of the classical Islamic world mean by Islam? In what sense was it operative in his life? To what extent did an Islamic slogan signify religious commitment? The difficulty in treating these questions consists in the fact of the variety, not the dearth of answers to them. Rather than develop alternative perspectives, however, we would, in what follows, focus our study on one aspect of the life of the Muslim Umma. This is the problem of the dynamics underlying revolt, rebellion, social protest and revolution in early Islam; with reference to this aspect we would ask our basic questions. In a sense, the three questions could be resolved into one: to what extent, in what sense, and why, was Islam a factor in Muslim revolts during the first centuries? Two propositions would help treat this question, and in the course of the study, we would see if a third may also be legitimately articulated. They are as follows: first, it is possible that the disaffected Muslims in classical and medieval Islam may have tended to translate their mundane grievances into religous terms so that, for instance, the perceived threat to a particular dispensation, or the actual destruction of such a dispensation may have been interpreted as a threat to religion itself; and second, Islam may have been interpreted as the best form of propriety and justice so that those whofeltthemselves deprived considered it incumbent to fight for such justice, not necessarily because it would benefit them but because this was what Islam was, it being considered obligatory to strengthen, save, or reestablish Islam.

The King, His Chapel, His Church. Boundaries and Hybridity in the Religious Visual Culture of the Norman Kingdom

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Umberto Bongianino
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Liminal Spaces ◽  
Religious System ◽  
Latin West ◽  
Artificial Image ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Church

AbstractThe creation of the Norman kingdom of Sicily was complemented by the development of a unique court milieu encompassing elements from the Latin West, Byzantium, and the Islamic world. The churches of Palermo, in particular, became the focus of a sophisticated project of experimentation and combination of different artistic traditions, to convey an artificial image of equilibrium among élites and communities of three different denominations: Latin, Greek-Byzantine, and Arabo-Christian. Through the creation and subversion of architectural boundaries, the promotion of certain forms of visual hybridity, the transgression of artistic media, and the articulation of new liminal spaces, the Norman rulers transformed their churches and cathedrals into an ideal stage for performing their liturgy of kingship, and conveying the message of a multi-faceted religious system unified and harmonized only through the king, as supreme head of the Church and vicar of Christ.

The Mother of Pop? Dorothy Morland and the Independent Group

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-278
Author(s):  
Anne Massey
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
Independent Group ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Interdisciplinary Practice ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Art And Architecture

The historiography of the Independent Group, dominated at present by art and architectural history, positions it within the trajectory of modernism. This Themed Issue demonstrates that there are other readings of the Group, which foreground both its multidisciplinary approach and contestation of cultural boundaries. The author is concerned here with the ways in which the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and its Director, Dorothy Morland (1906–1999), acted as a catalyst for the Group. As an arts administrator rather than a practitioner, Morland’s contribution is often overlooked in the histories of art and architecture. Using the disciplinary approach of visual culture, a more inclusive view is opened up. Claims for prescience are in themselves, problematic, but by positioning Morland as the ‘Mother of Pop’, the commonly accepted view of the Independent Group as the ‘Fathers of Pop’ is contested. Morland trained as a singer at the Royal College of Music, and this background gave her a non-specialist and inclusive approach towards the visual. She managed to facilitate certain kinds of interdisciplinary debate and made it possible for certain kinds of art, design and architectural practice to flourish within the context of the ICA. She also facilitated the exhibition and dissemination of this interdisciplinary practice, acting as a bridge between the ICA management and the Independent Group, as well as being key to the preservation of the ICA’s history and archives.

Discussions on the Influence of the Judeo-Christian Culture on Hadiths

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Özcan Hıdır
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
Western Scholar ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Muslim Scholars ◽  
Islamic Literature

AbstractAlthough it is difficult to determine the first Western scholar to claim the influence of Judaic culture on hadiths or tried to relate hadiths to the biblical texts, the Frenchman Barthelmy d’Herbelot (d. 1695) was the first orientalist to claim that many chapters in the hadith literature, including al-kutub al-sitta, were borrowed from the Talmud.The ideas and claims of some Western scholars such as Alois Sprenger, Ignaz Goldziher, Georges Vajda, and S. Rosenblatt up to the end of the 18th century led to many discussions that were defended and developed with new arguments by many Western scholars. Nowadays, the reflection of these claims in the Islamic world has become a serious hadith problem. In addition to the role of the conversion movement in the early Islam and the first Jewish converts to Islam, the non-Arabs known as almawālī, especially in the Ummayad period, and poets like Umayya ibn Abi al-Salt of the Jāhilliya period, who were believed to have read the early holy books, and preachers, are the most important factors playing a role in this influence. This study attempts to analyze the claims, opinions, and factors from the perspectives of the Islamic literature and Muslim scholars’ views towards the Jewish‐Christian tradition.

scholarly journals عروض مختصرة

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (87) ◽  
pp. 191-183
Author(s):  
عليا العظم
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Tree Of Knowledge ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Imagination ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
Art And Architecture

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Symmetry in art and architecture of the Western Islamic world

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Thalal ◽  
Y. Aboufadil ◽  
M. A. Elidrissi Raghni ◽  
A. Jali ◽  
A. Oueriagli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Islamic World ◽  
Art And Architecture

Jesuit Visual Culture in a Machine Age

2018 ◽  
pp. 448-486
Author(s):  
Mia M. Mochizuki
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Machine Age ◽  
Global Consciousness ◽  
Art And Technology ◽  
Athanasius Kircher ◽  
Art And Architecture ◽  
The Church ◽  
Cross Fertilization

The term “Jesuit visual culture” has replaced an earlier interest in “Jesuit style” for studies in Jesuit art and architecture. Multimedia strategies transformed the renovation of the Chapel of St. Ignatius in the Church of the Gesù in Rome into a “devotional machine” by drawing upon such diverse sources as Athanasius Kircher, S.J.’s machines, Andrea Pozzo, S.J.’s set designs (apparati), and early modern Jesuit rhetorical exchanges. The result of the cross-fertilization of art and technology was the construction of a prophetic image, where the global consciousness of early modern Jesuit visual culture sustained a transactional aesthetics premised on technological innovation, systemic connectivity, and redemptive materialism. When the Society of Jesus attempted to craft the future, it ensured the rise and, inadvertently, the fall of the all-too-relative image and the order that had become so closely associated with it.

Visual Culture and Catholicism in the Irish Free State, 1922–1949

2006 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN TURPIN
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Free State ◽  
Stained Glass ◽  
Christian Art ◽  
Irish Free State ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Art And Architecture ◽  
Modern Form

In the newly independent Irish Free State, a triumphalist Catholicism was embodied visually in mass-produced imagery and revivalist architecture. The Academy of Christian Art was set up in 1929 to regenerate Catholic art and architecture, but it failed to address the challenge of Modernism. A debate between eclectic and modern form was most acute in architecture, where the Hiberno-Romanesque and the neo-Classical were favoured by lay and cleric alike. Stained glass was the one form where Modernism was influential. The culmination of populist Catholicism and its visual representation was the Eucharistic Congress of 1932 with its temporary public altars and massive spectacle: a manifestation of Irish national identity.

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