Of serpents and dragons in Islamic art and related animals: an iconograpical study

In the medieval Muslim world, the dragon was the most frequently represented fabulous beast. This applied across styles and media and in both sacred and secular contexts. Yet its prominence is marked by seemingly contradictory representations. Like Plato's "Pharmakon, "; the dragon wa...

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1. Verfasser: Daneshvari, Abbas (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Costa Mesa, CA Mazda Publishers 2021
Ausgabe:Expanded and revised edition
Schriftenreihe:Bibliotheca Iranica. Islamic art and architecture series no. 13
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Zusammenfassung:In the medieval Muslim world, the dragon was the most frequently represented fabulous beast. This applied across styles and media and in both sacred and secular contexts. Yet its prominence is marked by seemingly contradictory representations. Like Plato's "Pharmakon, "; the dragon was imbued with antithetical meanings: as it stood for both the darkness of the eclipse and the light of God, the satanic and the divine, the transcendent and the earthly. The "yin" and the "yang" of Islam were embodied in the dragon, whose fire was the hell of destruction and also the blessed light of the divine. The dragon thus represented one of those exceptional and mysterious symbols that explained the more baffling phenomena such as creation, chaos and order, furthermore signifying amalgamations of dichotomous forces whose balance made life and the understanding of life possible ... -- Book Description
Beschreibung:Series information from publisher's website
Beschreibung:xxii, 247 Seiten Illustrationen (schwarz-weiß) 23 cm
ISBN:9781568593913

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