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Of serpents and dragons in Islamic art and related animals : an iconograpical study
- Title
- Of serpents and dragons in Islamic art and related animals : an iconograpical study / Abbas Daneshvari.
- Author
- Daneshvari, Abbas
- Publication
- Costa Mesa, CA : Mazda Publishers, [2021]
- ©2021
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- Description
- xxii, 250 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- 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
- Series Statement
- Bibliotheca Iranica. Islamic art and architecture series ; no. 13
- Uniform Title
- Bibliotheca Iranica. Islamic art and architecture series ; 13.
- Subject
- Note
- Series information from publisher's Web site.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Background information -- Names, types and attributes -- The intrepid hero -- Astrocosmological symbolism of the dragon -- The dragon at the navel of the earth -- Hybrid representations of dragons and serpents -- Dragons, opium and "the kitab al-diryaq" -- Dragons in the cult of the saints.
- Call Number
- JQE 22-10
- ISBN
- 1568593910
- 9781568593913
- OCLC
- 1237309127
- Author
- Daneshvari, Abbas, author.
- Title
- Of serpents and dragons in Islamic art and related animals : an iconograpical study / Abbas Daneshvari.
- Publisher
- Costa Mesa, CA : Mazda Publishers, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- Expanded and revised edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Bibliotheca Iranica. Islamic art and architecture series ; no. 13Bibliotheca Iranica. Islamic art and architecture series ; 13.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JQE 22-10