QADAR/SINA´AT – coccidental deconstruction and authentication of the spirit of homo islamicus’s initiation Cover Image

QADAR/SINA´AT – okcidentalna dekonstruiranost i autentifikacija duha inicijacije homo islamicusa
QADAR/SINA´AT – coccidental deconstruction and authentication of the spirit of homo islamicus’s initiation

Author(s): Mehmed A. Akšamija
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Aesthetics, Contemporary Islamic Thought, History of Art
Published by: Centar za dijalog - Vesatijja
Keywords: ìslām; Islamic civilization; Islamic culture; art; homo islamicus; qadar/ṣināʿat; globalization of culture;

Summary/Abstract: The intention of this analysis is to continue the discussion of some parts of the history of what is declared or titled „Islamic art”, within the critical and theoretical framework of both Occidental-Western and (some) Muslim perspectives. The analysis and establishments of limits in line with the prevailing authorities will contribute to the vital modalities of qadar/ṣināʿat discourse which are resolutely Islamic and in line with their source (ar. al-marjaʿ or al-maṣdar). Particular attention is drawn to advocating differences, due to Occidental-westernized academic efforts to ignore the spirit of unity and the self-reflective Islamic constants of qadar/ṣināʿat discourses and impose the artificial dichotomy of the sacral and profane, and due to paradigmatic views on the evaluation of the aestheticized achievement of the originator/designer of representation, (i.e. homo islamicus) as absolute western ownership.

  • Issue Year: 3/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 16-55
  • Page Count: 40
  • Language: Bosnian, English