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Naẓar:Vision, Belief, and Perception in Islamic Cultures

Buch | Hardcover

318 Seiten

2021
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-49947-8 (ISBN)

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Naẓar: Vision, Belief, and Perception in Islamic Cultures offers multiple perspectives on how the Islamic visual culture and aesthetic sensibility have been enabled and shaped by common conceptual tools, consistent socio-spatial practices, and unifying beliefs and moral parameters.

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.

Samer Akkach, Ph.D (1992), FAHA, is Professor of architectural history and theory and Founding Director of the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) at the University of Adelaide. His many works on Islamic intellectual history include ʿIlm: Science, Religion, and Art in Islam (UAP 2019).

Preface

Notes to the Reader

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Aperture: Terms, Concepts, and Discourse

Samer Akkach

1 Naẓar: The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unseeable

Samer Akkach

2 Naẓar, Subjectivity, and ‘The Gaze’

Wendy M.K. Shaw

part 1: The Eye of the Heart

3 Human Looking, Divine Gaze: Naẓar in Islamic Spirituality

Stephen Hirtenstein

4 Seeing with ‘The Eyes of the Heart’: dhikr and fikr as Sources of Insight in Indonesian Islamic Art

Virginia Hooker

part 2: The Eye of the Mind

5 Transparency: Ibn Al-Haytham’s Manāẓir and Visual Perception of Beauty

Ellen Philpott-Teo

6 Veiling: Ibn Al-Qaṭṭān’s Aḥkām and the Rules Concerning Seeing

Samer Akkach

part 3: Evil Eye, Talismanic Seeing

7 May the Envier’s Eye be Blind

Sakina Nomanbhoy

8 Talismanic Seeing: The Induction of Power in Indonesian Zoomorphic Art

James Bennett

part 4: Gazing Eye, Imaginative Seeing

9 The Artist’s Gaze: Visual Representations of the Mughal Hunting Landscape

Shaha Parpia

10 Vernacular Subjectivity as a Way of Seeing: Visualising Bijapur in Nujūm al-ʿUlūm and Kitāb-i-Nauras

Sushma Griffin

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2021
Reihe/Serie	Islamic History and Civilization ; 191
Zusatzinfo	53 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	692 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
ISBN-10	90-04-49947-4 / 9004499474
ISBN-13	978-90-04-49947-8 / 9789004499478
Zustand	Neuware