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''Chapter 1: Icon and Meditation: Between Popular Art and Sufism in Imami Shi’ism'' | ''Chapter 1: Icon and Meditation: Between Popular Art and Sufism in Imami Shi’ism'' | ||
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezziin in this chapter, examines the role of material culture – popular religious art objects – in Sufi practices. He discusses how a devotional object, could carry sanction and protection to its proprietor and creates a strong linkage between religious pictorial art and the mystical brotherhood. Pious images and devotional objects help people contemplate the divine and teach the true faith because not everyone can approach God through the intellect. | [[Mohammad Ali Amir Moezzi|Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezziin]] in this chapter, examines the role of material culture – popular religious art objects – in Sufi practices. He discusses how a devotional object, could carry sanction and protection to its proprietor and creates a strong linkage between religious pictorial art and the mystical brotherhood. Pious images and devotional objects help people contemplate the divine and teach the true faith because not everyone can approach God through the intellect. | ||
''Chapter 2: When Nubuvvat Encounters Valāyat: Safavid Paintings of the Prophet Mohammad’s Mi‘rāj, c. 1500–50'' | ''Chapter 2: When Nubuvvat Encounters Valāyat: Safavid Paintings of the Prophet Mohammad’s Mi‘rāj, c. 1500–50'' | ||