Elias, Jamal J.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-392) and index.
• Prologue : the promise of a meaningful image — Representation, resemblance and religion — The icon and the idol — Iconoclasm, iconophobia and Islam — Idols, icons and images in Islam — Beauty, goodness, and wonder — Alchemy, appearance and essence — Dreams, visions and the imagination — Sufism and the metaphysics of resemblance — Words, pictures and signs — Legibility, iconicity and monumental writing.

Subjects:

• Islam and art.
• Islamic art.
• Figurative art — Islamic countries.
• Idols and images in art.

Requested by Lowe, M