| ISBN |
9783775747332 (softcover) |
| Title |
In the name of the image : figurative representation in Islamic and Christian cultures / Axel Langer (ed.) |
| Publisher |
Berlin : Hatje Cantz, 2022 |
| Physical desc. |
467 pages ; illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
Published in conjunction with the exhibition In the name of the image: imagery between cult and prohibition in Islam and Christianity, held 4 February to 22 May 2022, at the Museum Rietberg Zürich. |
| CB illustrations: p. 51, cat. 14 (Is 1406); p. 52-53, cat. 15 (Is 1411, ff. 1v-2r); p. 60-61, cat. 18 (Ar 4223, ff. 2v-3r); p. 80, cat. 29 (Per 235, f. 55r); p. 122, cat. 60 (T 559.4); p. 162, cat. 88 (T 419.4); p. 181, cat. 100 (T 414, f. 102v); p. 215, cat. 116 (Per 298.7); p. 238-239, cat 125 (T 444, ff. 336v-337r); p. 308, fig. 3 (Per 235, f. 55r); p. 308, fig. 4 (Per 137, f. 3r); p. 426, fig. 3 (In 07A.19). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 450-465) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Between belief in images and a ban on images: introductory thoughts on the exhibition / Axel Langer -- Catalogue. Images and religious spaces -- Writing as the 'direct approach to the most sacred' -- Symbols and signs as indications of the sacred -- Relics: the presence of the sacred -- Idolatry and iconoclasm -- Similar erasure: different interpretations -- Coins: bearers of ideas, demonstrations of power, and proofs of faith -- Three-dimensional images: a special case -- In the face of the prophets -- Visualizing the Trinity -- Individual devotion: private liturgy or transgression? -- Ruler, sufferer, hero, family man -- A bible for the poor? -- The lives of the prophets: like contents, like visual rhetoric -- Courtly self-representation I: the enduring life of antiquity -- Courtly self-representation II: poetry as a source of iconography -- Portrait of the ruler in Persia: from private image to propaganda -- Portraits of rulers in the Ottoman Empire: West-East exchange and dynastic seriality -- Portraits of rulers in the Mughal Empire: similarities and differences to Elizabethan miniature portraits -- Royal self-representation under the Mamluks -- God loves beauty: on portraying the unportrayable in Islam / Ahmad Milad Karimi -- 'My eyes have seen your salvation': the image and the veneration of images in Catholicism / René Schurte -- Images, coins, statues: iconoclasm and the question of representation in Byzantium / Christophe Erismann -- Islam and image: paradoxical histories / Finbarr Barry Flood -- Engines of prophecy: materializing Muhammad in the modern Islamic world / Christiane Gruber -- The mandylion and the revocation of Old Testament prohibition of images in Christianity / Daniel Spanke -- Writing about beauty: the hilye of Muhammad and visualization through script / Tobias Heinzelmann -- Speaking bones and narrative pictures: aniconism versus visual narratives on small tabernacles in late-medieval Christian art / Beate Fricke -- The profane visual worlds of the Middle Ages in Latin Western Europe / Dieter Blume -- Portraits of Ottoman sultans between East and West / Hans Georg Majer -- Persian and Mughal portrait miniatures: types or true likenesses? / Friederike Weis -- Images and words in Mamluk metalwork (1250-1517) / Doris Behrens-Abouseif. |
| Corporate name |
Museum Rietberg -- Exhibitions |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 4223 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 07A |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1406 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1411 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 137 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 235 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 298 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 414 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 419 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 444 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 559 |
| Christian art and symbolism -- Exhibitions |
| Christian art and symbolism |
| Islamic art and symbolism -- Exhibitions |
| Islamic art and symbolism |
| Added name(s) |
Langer, Axel editor |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Museum Rietberg |
