Na?ar:Vision, Belief, and Perception in Islamic Cultures

Preface


Notes to the Reader


List of Figures


Notes on Contributors





Aperture: Terms, Concepts, and Discourse


?Samer Akkach





1 Na?ar: The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unseeable


?Samer Akkach





2 Na?ar, Subjectivity, and 'The Gaze'


?Wendy M.K. Shaw





part 1: The Eye of the Heart


3 Human Looking, Divine Gaze: Na?ar in Islamic Spirituality


?Stephen Hirtenstein





4 Seeing with 'The Eyes of the Heart': dhikr and fikr as Sources of Insight in Indonesian Islamic Art


?Virginia Hooker





part 2: The Eye of the Mind


5 Transparency: Ibn Al-Haytham's Mana?ir and Visual Perception of Beauty


?Ellen Philpott-Teo





6 Veiling: Ibn Al-Qa??an's A?kam and the Rules Concerning Seeing


?Samer Akkach





part 3: Evil Eye, Talismanic Seeing


7 May the Envier's Eye be Blind


?Sakina Nomanbhoy





8 Talismanic Seeing: The Induction of Power in Indonesian Zoomorphic Art


?James Bennett





part 4: Gazing Eye, Imaginative Seeing


9 The Artist's Gaze: Visual Representations of the Mughal Hunting Landscape


?Shaha Parpia





10 Vernacular Subjectivity as a Way of Seeing: Visualising Bijapur in Nujum al-?Ulum and Kitab-i-Nauras


?Sushma Griffin





Index

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• Historia da arte / estilos de arte e design
• Filosofia islâmica e arabe
• História do Oriente Médio
• Sufismo e misticismo islâmico

Ibn al-Haytham; Ibn al-Qa??an; India; Indonesia; Islam; Mughal; Nazar; Southeast Asia; Sufism; history; religion; science and art; vision; visual culture