Book contents
- Islam and the Devotional Object
- Islam and the Devotional Object
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Dates
- Introduction
- One Objects over Distance
- Two An Exuberant and Elusive Palanquin
- Three Processions, Banners, and the Religious Spectacle
- Four The Relic and Its Witness
- Five Religious Topography and the Relic
- Six Defacing and Displacing
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Six - Defacing and Displacing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 June 2020
Book contents
- Islam and the Devotional Object
- Islam and the Devotional Object
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Dates
- Introduction
- One Objects over Distance
- Two An Exuberant and Elusive Palanquin
- Three Processions, Banners, and the Religious Spectacle
- Four The Relic and Its Witness
- Five Religious Topography and the Relic
- Six Defacing and Displacing
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Explores the contested status of pre-Islamic objects, and their possible lives within Medieval Islamic visual culture. Argues that colonial notions of cultural purity erased a uniquely regional Islamic aesthetic.
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- Islam and the Devotional ObjectSeeing Religion in Egypt and Syria, pp. 172 - 200Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020