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Arabian Peninsula, art and architecture
(2,966 words)
The
art and architecture of the
Arabian Peninsula reflect a cultural continuum from antiquity to Islamic times. In antiquity, both the traffic in frankincense and the trade routes to India, the Far East, East Africa, and the Mediterranean connected the Arabian Peninsula to the wider ancient world, giving its people access to all kinds of luxury items and cultural influences from distant lands. South Arabia in particular experienced a golden age of artistic creativity, dating roughly from the sixth cent…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
Iconography
(6,550 words)
[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Archaeology – III. Iconography and the Bible – IV. Christian Iconography – V. Jewish Iconography – VI. Islamic Iconography – VII. Buddhist Iconography – VIII. Hindu Iconography
I. Religious Studies
Iconography (Gk εἰκονογραϕία/
eikonographía) originally meant the description of images (Arist.
Poet. XV; Strabo XV 1.19), but nowadays is used to refer to the methodical study of images. Where scholars distinguish between
iconography,
iconology , and
iconics (Ger.
Ikonik),
iconography denotes the description of the object, …
Source:
Religion Past and Present
