ISLA 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Basmala, Mongul, Safavid Dynasty
18 May 2016
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Islamic painting and drawing is heavily in uenced by each other with a great continuity in pattern across time and space. The great translation movement occurred under the abbasid caliphs who demanded the translation of texts into arabic, these texts were scienti c, literary and so on. It was in that context that we started to have illustrations in these books (paintings) This accorded with a general distrust of the representation of the visual that was already evident in the near east. There is a heritage of jewish aniconism that remains in place in islam. The earliest known paintings under the muslim rule date back to the abbasid court. What is crucial to ask is how living beings were represented. There is a general distrust of the visual representation of living beings. The persian miniature is a solution to that, the miniatures produces across the empires.
