Visualizing belief and piety in Iranian Shiism
Note on transliteration -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. The portrait of Imam Ali: 1. The emergence of a prototypical model and its survival -- 2. Imam Ali in Shia memory -- 3. The iconography of Imam Ali and its reception -- Part II. The battle at Karbala: 4. The battle at Karbala in Shia memo...
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Sprache: | eng |
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London u.a.
Continuum
2010
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Islam and art
> Art and religion
> Shīʻah
> Doctrines
> Iran
> Schiiten
> Frömmigkeit
> Religiöse Kunst
> Devotionalie
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Zusammenfassung: | Note on transliteration -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. The portrait of Imam Ali: 1. The emergence of a prototypical model and its survival -- 2. Imam Ali in Shia memory -- 3. The iconography of Imam Ali and its reception -- Part II. The battle at Karbala: 4. The battle at Karbala in Shia memory and piety -- 5. Visual Karbala narratives in Shia piety -- 6. The parcham wall hanging -- 7. Representation and reception of Karbala in colour posters -- Part III. Images and decorative designs in ritual space: 8. The image as a votive gift -- 9. Images in the liturgy of commemoration and celebration -- 10. Decorative programmes across gendered ritual space -- 11. Transposing iconography -- Conclusion: visualizing and seeing in the service of Islam. |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | XII, 299 S. Ill 24 cm |
ISBN: | 1441149074 1-4411-4907-4 9781441149077 978-1-4411-4907-7 |