Muslim Devotional Art in India

Muslim Devotional Art in India
Author :
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 255
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780429756634
ISBN-13 : 0429756631
Rating : 4/5 (631 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Muslim Devotional Art in India by : Yousuf Saeed

Download or read book Muslim Devotional Art in India written by Yousuf Saeed and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the history of Islamic popular devotional art and visual culture in 20th-century India, weaving the personal narrative of the author’s journey through his understanding of the faith. It begins with an introductory exploration of how the basic and universal image of Mecca and Medina may have been imported into Indian popular print culture and what variants it resulted in here. Besides providing a historical context of the pre-print culture of popular Muslim visuality, the book also explores the impact the 1947 Partition of India may have made on the calendar art in South Asia. A significant portion of the book focuses on the contemporary prints of different localised images found in India and what role these play in the users’ lives, especially in the augmentation of their popular faith and cultural practices. The volume also compares the images published in India with some of those available in Pakistan to reflect different socio-political trajectories. Finally, it discusses why such a vibrant visual culture continues to thrive among South Asian Muslims despite the questions raised by the orthodoxy on its legitimacy in Islam, and why images and popular visual cultures are inevitable for popular piety despite the orthodox Muslims’ increasing dissociation from them. This work is one of the first books on Indian Muslim poster art, with rare images and simple narratives, anecdotes about rituals, ceremonies and cultural traditions running parallel to research findings. This second edition contains a new Afterword that discusses challenges to religious plurality arising on account of changing political landscapes, economic liberalisation, technology and new media, and socio-religious developments. It will appeal to the lay reader as well as the specialist and will be especially useful to researchers and scholars in popular culture, media and cultural studies, visual art and performance studies, and sociology and social anthropology.


Muslim Devotional Art in India Related Books

Muslim Devotional Art in India
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Yousuf Saeed
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-26 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

GET EBOOK

This book highlights the history of Islamic popular devotional art and visual culture in 20th-century India, weaving the personal narrative of the author’s jo
Muslim Devotional Art in India
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Yousuf Saeed (Filmmaker)
Categories: HISTORY
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

This book highlights the history of Islamic popular devotional art and visual culture in 20th-century India, weaving the personal narrative of the author's jour
Islamic Art
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: David Talbot Rice
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1975 - Publisher: Thames & Hudson

GET EBOOK

The historical development of Islamic art and the variations of different geographical regions are surveyed
Islamic Art in the 19th Century
Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: BRILL

GET EBOOK

This collection of essays provides a timely reassessment of nineteenth-century Islamic art and architecture. The essays demonstrate that the arts of that era we
Arts of the Islamic Book
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Anthony Welch
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

GET EBOOK

The collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan contains some of the world's finest examples of painting and calligraphy and is perhaps the most important private M