Material Culture in Islamic Life:  Slide Show

 

To accompany your reading for this week, I have compiled some images that can give you a sense of the ways in which Islam has crafted a particular material culture that demonstrates the particularities of Islamic concepts of "art," "culture," and religious identity.

 

These images are not to be copied or distributed outside of class use.

 

To begin the slide show, click HERE.

 

To skip to a particular set of images, choose from the table below:

 

"The Mosque:  Worship and Life"

        Masjid basics

        The holy cities

        Monuments of grandeur

 

"Islamic art:  imagination without image"

        Qur'anic calligraphy and the arabesque

        The human figure

 

"Islamic dress: modesty and public Islam"