| ISBN |
9004499474 (hardcover) |
| 9789004499478 (hardcover) |
| Title |
Nazar : vision, belief, and perception in Islamic cultures / edited by Samer Akkach |
| Publisher |
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022 |
| Physical desc. |
xxi, 317 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Islamic history and civilization : studies and texts 191 |
| Note |
CB illustrations: p. 272, fig. 9.8 (right) (In 07A.3); p. 293, fig. 10.2 (In 02, f. 183r); p. 296, fig. 10.3 (In 02, f. 5v); p. 297, fig. 10.4 (In 02, f. 191r). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Aperture: terms, concepts, and discourse / Samer Akkach -- Nazar: the seen, the unseen, and the unseeable / Samer Akkach -- Nazar, subjectivity, and 'the gaze' / Wendy M.K. Shaw -- Part 1: The eye of the heart. Human looking, divine gaze: nazar in Islamic spirituality / Stephen Hirtenstein -- 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. Transparency: Ibn al-Haytham's Manazir and visual perception of beauty / Ellen Philpott-Teo -- Veiling: Ibn al-Qattan's Ahkam and the rules concerning seeing / Samer Akkach -- Part 3: Evil eye, talismanic seeing. May the envier's eye be blind / Sakina Nomanbhoy -- Talismanic seeing: the induction of power in Indonesian zoomorphic art / James Bennett -- Part 4: Gazing eye, imaginative seeing. The artist's gaze: visual representations of the Mughal hunting landscape / Shaha Parpia -- Vernacular subjectivity as a way of seeing: visualising Bijapur in Nujum al-'ulum and Kitab-i Nauras / Sushma Griffin. |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 02 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 07A |
| Islamic art -- Themes, motives |
| Art and society -- Islamic countries |
| Visual perception -- Cross-cultural studies |
| Added name(s) |
Akkach, Samer editor |
