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Persis Berlekamp

Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam

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Persis Berlekamp

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21570

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Reproduced by permission of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland: 5, 30; Courtesy of the Süleymaniye Library: 6, 12, 13, 15, 19, 23, 25, 26, 29, 51, 56, 63, 77, 84, 85; © Bibliothèque nationale de France: 7, 21, 39, 44, 46, 47, 57, 58, 59, 73, 92, 93; Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz/Art Resource, NY: 8; Photograph: © Nik Wheeler: 9; Photograph: Yasser Tabbaa, 1979: 10; © Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München: 11, 14, 17, 18, 22, 27, 38, 52, 94; © The British Library Board: 16, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 42, 48, 49, 50, 53, 74; © Topkapı Palace Museum: 20, 24, 45, 60, 65, 67, 68, 69, 72, 78, 79, 81, 82; Photograph: Mehmet Ali Ataç: 37; By permission of The Cleveland Museum of Art: 40; © The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford: 41, 62, 76; Photograph: SEF/Art Resource: 43; Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY: 54; © The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 55; By permission of Biblioteka Jagiellońska: 61; By permission of Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences: 64; Photograph: A. C. Cooper, published by permission of the Keir Collection: 66; Courtesy of the Khalili Family Trust: 70; By permission of Roy and Cecily Langdale Davis: 71; By permission of Museum of Islamic Art – Qatar: 75; By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library: 80; By permission of Forschungsbibliothek Gotha: 83; Photo courtesy of The National Library and Archives of Egypt: 86; By permission of Princeton University Library: 87, 88, 90, 96; Photo: Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY: 89; By permission of Bibliothèque Marceline Desbordes-Valmore à Douai: 91

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BOOKWonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam

Persis Berlekamp

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00270

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21558

This original book untangles fundamental confusions about historical relationships among Islam, representational images, and philosophy. Closely examining some of the most meaningful and best preserved premodern illustrated manuscripts of Islamic cosmographies, Persis Berlekamp refutes the assertion often made by other historians of medieval Islamic art that, while representational images did exist, they did not serve religious purposes.

The author focuses on widely disseminated Islamic images of the wonders of creation, ranging from angels to human-snatching birds, and argues that these illustrated manuscripts aimed to induce wonder at God's creation, as was their stated purpose. She tracks the various ways that images advanced that purpose in the genre's formative milieu—the century and a half following the Mongol conquest of the Islamic East in 1258. Delving into social history and into philosophical ideas relevant to manuscript and image production, Berlekamp shows that philosophy occupied an established, if controversial, position within Islam. She thereby radically reframes representational images within the history of Islam.

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Persis Berlekamp

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date May 2011 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300170603

EISBN 9780300264371

Illustrations 97

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