Art and architecture in the Islamic tradition : aesthetics, politics and desire in early Islam /

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 that Islamic and Western art being percei...

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Main Author: Hamdouni Alami, Mohammed
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : New York : I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the United States and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Library of modern Middle East studies ; 104.
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