Painting in Islam :

Issa, Ahmad Muhammad.

Painting in Islam : between prohibition and aversion / Ahmad Mohammad Issa. - Istanbul : Waqf for Research on Islamic History Art and Culture, 1996. - 56, 19, 44, 9 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Forward by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-52)

Judaism and Tasawir -- Christianity and Taswir -- Quran and Tasawir -- Hadith and Tasawir -- Humankind and Tasawir -- Precedents are the best proof -- Iconoclasm in Churches -- the Muslim Artist -- Shaikh M. Abduh and Taswir -- Opinions of some recent Ulema -- Islam and the Fine Arts -- Conclusion.


Text in English and Arabic.


Painting, Islamic.
Islam and art.
Islamic miniature painting.
Islamic art and symbolism.
Islamic art --Themes, motives.

ND146 / I87 1996