Elemterefiş : magic and superstition in Anatolia
Author : Ekrem Işın
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Halk inanışları-Anadolu-Sergi katalogları
ISBN :
Author : Ekrem Işın
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Halk inanışları-Anadolu-Sergi katalogları
ISBN :
Author : Henrik Bogdan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1317544463
The study of the ideas and practices associated with occultism is a rapidly growing branch of contemporary scholarship. However, most research has focused on English and French speaking areas and has not addressed the wider spread and significance of occultism. Occultism in a Global Perspective presents a broad international overview. Essays range across the German magical order of the Fraternitas Saturni, esoteric Satanism in Denmark, sexual magic in Colombia and the reception of occultism in modern Turkey, India and the former Yugoslavia. As any other form of cultural practice, the occult is not isolated from its social, discursive, religious, and political environment. By studying occultism in its global context, the book offers insights into the reciprocal relationships that colour and shape regional occultism.
Author : Esra Akin-Kivanc
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0253049237
Muthanna, also known as mirror writing, is a compelling style of Islamic calligraphy composed of a source text and its mirrored image placed symmetrically on a horizontal or vertical axis. This style elaborates on various scripts such as Kufi, naskh, and muqahhaq through compositional arrangements, including doubling, superimposing, and stacking. Muthanna is found in diverse media, ranging from architecture, textiles, and tiles to paper, metalwork, and woodwork. Yet despite its centuries-old history and popularity in countries from Iran to Spain, scholarship on the form has remained limited and flawed. Muthanna/Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy provides a comprehensive study of the text and its forms, beginning with an explanation of the visual principles and techniques used in its creation. Author Esra Akın-Kıvanç explores muthanna's relationship to similar forms of writing in Judaic and Christian contexts, as well as the specifically Islamic contexts within which symmetrically mirrored compositions reached full fruition, were assigned new meanings, and transformed into more complex visual forms. Throughout, Akın-Kıvanç imaginatively plays on the implicit relationship between subject and object in muthanna by examining the point of view of the artist, the viewer, and the work of art. In doing so, this study elaborates on the vital links between outward form and inner meaning in Islamic calligraphy.
Author : Jamal J. Elias
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0674070666
Media coverage of the Danish cartoon crisis and the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan left Westerners with a strong impression that Islam does not countenance depiction of religious imagery. Jamal J. Elias corrects this view by revealing the complexity of Islamic attitudes toward representational religious art. Aisha’s Cushion emphasizes Islam’s perceptual and intellectual modes and in so doing offers the reader both insight into Islamic visual culture and a unique way of seeing the world. Aisha’s Cushion evaluates the controversies surrounding blasphemy and iconoclasm by exploring Islamic societies at the time of Muhammad and the birth of Islam; during early contact between Arab Muslims and Byzantine Christians; in medieval Anatolia and India; and in modern times. Elias’s inquiry then goes further, to situate Islamic religious art in a global context. His comparisons with Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu attitudes toward religious art show them to be as contradictory as those of Islam. Contemporary theories about art’s place in society inform Elias’s investigation of how religious objects have been understood across time and in different cultures. Elias contends that Islamic perspectives on representation and perception should be sought not only in theological writings or aesthetic treatises but in a range of Islamic works in areas as diverse as optics, alchemy, dreaming, calligraphy, literature, vehicle and home decoration, and Sufi metaphysics. Unearthing shades of meaning in Islamic thought throughout history, Elias offers fresh insight into the relations among religion, art, and perception across a broad range of cultures.
Author : H. B. Paksoy
Publisher : ISIS Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9754280339
CARRIE, a full-text electronic library based at the University of Kansas, presents the text of "Central Asian Monuments" (ISBN 975-428-033-9). H. B. Paksoy edited the book, which was originally published in 1992 by the Isis Press. The book contains essays on eight Central Asian literary monuments and provides historical perspective on each.
Author : Aydın Sayılı
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Author : Michael Howes
Publisher : Robert Hale
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
Author : Parviz Tanavoli
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Locks and keys
ISBN :
Author : Ahmet Aslan
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Arts and society
ISBN :
Author : Henry Maguire
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Magic
ISBN : 9780884023401
Written by specialists in several disciplines, this volume explores the parameters and significance of magic in Byzantine society, from the fourth century to after the empire's fall. The authors address a wide variety of questions, some of which are common to all historical research into magic, and some of which are peculiar to the Byzantine context. The authors reveal the scope, the forms, and the functioning of magic in Byzantine society, throwing light on a hitherto relatively little-known aspect of Byzantine culture, and, at the same time, expanding upon the contemporary debates concerning magic and its roles in pre-modern societies.