RE: Anti-Hijab movment in Iran
November 5, 2022 at 10:22 am
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2022 at 10:23 am by Leonardo17.)
- I don’t know about that.
But no one forbid imagery in Islam. Almost all Ottoman Sultans have had portraits of them painted, mostly by the most famous painters of their times and Suleiman the Magnificent was known to be in possession of several marble Greco-Roman statues (among many other objects of art of great significance)
And in Iran. Music was even used for healing purpose and many forms of ancient Iranian music have entered Turkish culture as well. And I forgot to talk more about the famous Shahname:
The Shahnameh or Shahnama (Persian: شاهنامه, romanized: Šāhnāme, lit. 'The Book of Kings', pronounced [ʃɒːhnɒːˈme])[a] is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh
Most of the beautiful book paintings of this book are similar to the Book of Kells (8th century AD) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells
(If anyone is of Irish descent, I think they should have a look. It is really beautiful)[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh][/url]
I was looking for this image yesterday. You can go and see it at Harvard University Art Museum, it is also from the shahname and it is called “Braham Gur Killing the Wolf”.
And here is a page from the Book of Kells at The UBC Museum
A little bit of art doesn't kill anyone right?
But no one forbid imagery in Islam. Almost all Ottoman Sultans have had portraits of them painted, mostly by the most famous painters of their times and Suleiman the Magnificent was known to be in possession of several marble Greco-Roman statues (among many other objects of art of great significance)
And in Iran. Music was even used for healing purpose and many forms of ancient Iranian music have entered Turkish culture as well. And I forgot to talk more about the famous Shahname:
The Shahnameh or Shahnama (Persian: شاهنامه, romanized: Šāhnāme, lit. 'The Book of Kings', pronounced [ʃɒːhnɒːˈme])[a] is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh
Most of the beautiful book paintings of this book are similar to the Book of Kells (8th century AD) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells
(If anyone is of Irish descent, I think they should have a look. It is really beautiful)[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh][/url]
I was looking for this image yesterday. You can go and see it at Harvard University Art Museum, it is also from the shahname and it is called “Braham Gur Killing the Wolf”.
And here is a page from the Book of Kells at The UBC Museum
A little bit of art doesn't kill anyone right?