Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition: Aesthetics, Politics and Desire in Early Islam by Mohammed Hamdouni Alami
Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition: Aesthetics, Politics and Desire in Early Islam
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Mohammed Hamdouni Alami
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Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition: Aesthetics, Politics and Desire in Early Islam

Mohammed Hamdouni Alami

304 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

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What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition? Mohammed Hamdouni Alami argues that Islamic art has historically been excluded from Western notions of art; that the Western aesthetic tradition's preoccupation with the human body has meant tha...

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