NEJS 195a Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lucas Van Leyden, Umayyad Mosque, Bahira
13 Nov 2017
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Importance of visual images of muhammad and the lack thereof: do not want to make an idol out of his image, technology affected the spread and availability of images of muhammad, other religions, christianity, byzantine iconoclasms. Image of him with a sword that originated in the. He"s hearing things: yellow represents melancholy and folly, source from the four humors, believed those were the side effects of yellow bile, scenes from muhammad"s life from the sira, european reimagining of stories of muhammad"s life, ex. Imminent danger to europeans from islamic empires which colored their descriptions of him: looked like an ottoman gentleman. Prophet of the turks -> meant muslim more than they meant. Turkish people: dante"s inferno, dante"s description of muhammad in hell is used to portray muhammad for centuries after- up until and through the 19th century, disemboweling themselves for causing a schism.
