Icon-form : the differential logic of aniconism in Islamic tradition

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2001
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Bilkent University
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English
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This study aims to analyse the perception of the icons and figural representation in the Islamic tradition in the framework of fetishism. Following debates of fetishism, a new concept, icon-form will be proposed in order to understand the situation of icons in Islam. After that this concept, icon-form will be tested in the case of calligraphy. This may lead to a different approach to the Islamic economy of vision.

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Icon-form, Fetishism, Calligraphy, icon, figural representation, discourse, figure, and mimesis
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