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"
"Islamic art: imagination without image"
Qur'anic calligraphy and the arabesque