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Islamic aesthetics : an introduction / Oliver Leaman.
Van Pelt - Stapleton Seminar Room (523) NX688.A4 L43 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leaman, Oliver, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islamic arts.
- Islam and art.
- Aesthetics, Arab.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 211 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2004.
- 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 Qurʾan
- Philosophy and ways of seeing
- Interpreting art, interpreting Islam, interpreting philosophy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [190]-195) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0748617345
- 0748617353
- OCLC:
- 53912554
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