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Ibn Tulun mosque, plan

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Description: The Formation of Islamic Art
It is customary to separate secular and religious impulses in the formation and development of an art. It is also often said that the separation is not entirely meaningful in Islam, which did not make a distinction between the realms of God and of Caesar. A word of explanation must therefore be provided to justify our use of the term “religious” in the title of this chapter. What we are trying to identify are those elements or sources of inspiration in early Islamic art that could not have …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.99-131
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00135.008

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