Von Allah bis Zypresse
Bildwörterbuch zur islamischen Ikonographie
By (author) Reiner Sörries
Paperback (Published)
(December 2021)
ISBN: 9783954904471
8.27 x 11.69 inches
Price: $45.00
In stock
The alleged Mohammedan image ban is opposed by a diverse Islamic world of images, which knows religious and profane scenes as well as mythological and symbolic motifs. They are opened here for the first time systematically and for all art genres. The lexical section from A to Z is complemented by explanations of the temporal and geographical focus of Islamic imagery. In addition, the most important cultural and literary sources are presented. This Islamic iconography is designed as a picture dictionary with numerous pictorial examples.
English summary: Despite the Islamic ban on images, the validity of which has been widely discussed, the Islamic world knows a large number of images from artistic book illumination to posters on streets and house walls. The present book is dedicated to the development of this world of images from its beginnings to the present and has three parts. In the introductory part, in addition to discussing the ban on images, the cultural and literary sources of Islamic iconography, the chronology and localization of the Islamic world of images as well as the genres of art in which images appear. The second (main) part reveals the most important contents of Islamic iconography from A to Z. In the final third part, iconological discussions take place using selected examples. On the one hand, the contrasts between the image-friendly Persian (Shiite) and the more image-abstinent Arab (Sunni) attitudes and, on the other hand, the overlap with Asian and Western art are taken into account. German description: Trotz des islamischen Bilderverbots, das in seiner Gultigkeit viel diskutiert ist, kennt man in der islamischen Welt eine Vielzahl von Bildern von der kunstlerischen Buchmalerei bis zu den Plakaten an Strassen und Hauswanden. Das vorliegende Buch ist der Erschliessung dieser Bilderwelt von den Anfangen bis zur Gegenwart gewidmet und besitzt drei Teile. Im einfuhrenden Teil werden neben Erorterungen des Bilderverbots die kulturellen und literarischen Quellen der islamischen Ikonographie, Chronologie und Lokalisierung der islamischen Bilderwelt sowie die Kunstgattungen genannt, in denen Bilder vorkommen. Der zweite (Haupt-) Teil erschliesst die wichtigsten Inhalte islamischer Ikonographie von A bis Z. Im abschliessenden dritten Teil erfolgen anhand ausgewahlter Beispiele ikonologische Erorterungen. Dabei werden einerseits die Gegensatze zwischen der bilderfreundlichen persischen (schiitischen) und der eher bildabstinenten arabischen (sunnitischen) Haltung und andererseits die Uberschneidungen mit der asiatischen und der abendlandischen Kunst berucksichtigt.
- By (author) Reiner Sörries
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