And part not with my revelations for a trifling price': Reconceptualizing Islam's Aniconism through the lenses of reification and representation as meaning-making
This article contends that Islamic prohibitions on certain types of figural imagery serve a dual function. In addition to fulfilling their traditional Islamic role related to preserving Allah's sovereignty, such prohibitions also facilitate in preventing Islam's essential message from bein...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2020]
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Social compass
Year: 2020, Volume: 67, Issue: 1, Pages: 120-136 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Qaraḍāwī, Yūsuf al- 1926-2022
/ ʿAlwānī, Ṭāhā Ǧābir Faiyāḍ al- 1935-2016
/ Islam
/ Image prohibition
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam |
| Further subjects: | B
Aniconism
B Aniconisme B Islam B Images B Representations B Yusuf al-Qaradawi B Imagery B représentations B Taha Jabir al-Alwani |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |