Figural Ornament in Medieval Islamic Art
A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, wiley, ss.501-520, 2017
- Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
- Basım Tarihi: 2017
- Doi Numarası: 10.1002/9781119069218.ch20
- Yayınevi: wiley
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.501-520
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
The historical relationship between the formation of Islam in the early medieval period and the concurrent fate of figural representation is an issue which has not been adequately problematized in the modern study of Islamic art. This chapter focuses on the trajectory of figural ornament on objects and architecture between the seventh and thirteenth centuries and, more briefly, on figural representation as it concurrently developed within the domain of manuscript illustration. The adaptation of Sasanian and Byzantine imperial imagery on Umayyad coinage of the late seventh century may be considered as the first milestone in any survey of Islamic figural representation. Both Ibn al-Muqaffa's own introduction and a later reference to the poet Rudaki's tenth-century Persian verse translation clearly mention pictures as part and parcel of the didactic and entertainment value of the popular literary work. The wider world of medieval Islamic cultures of image-making frequently also incorporated some acknowledgment of the pre-Islamic past.