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"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, and the ban on the representation of the human body in Islam, has meant that Islamic and Western art have been perceived as inherently at odds. However, the move away from this 'anthropomorphic aesthetic' in Western art movements, such as modern abstract and const

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Author

Alami, Mohammed Hamdouni (editor)

Publisher

I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the United States and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780765617

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Architecture, Islam, History

Updated

2026-03-24