NP Taliban Iconoclasm

[Dave Monroe]

Islam just doesn't seem to have the history of
iconoclasm that Christianity does, is all.  But they
certainly are more consistently circumspect about
iconology, that's for sure.  But I know even less
about Islam than I do about Christianity, not to
mention ...

It's also been argued that Judaism is an aural, and
not a visual, and thus, to some degree, an
iconoclastic, culture as well ...

Borman, Thorleif.  Hebrew Thought Compared
   with Greek.  New York: Norton, 1970 [1960].

Even see as well that first chapter to ...

Auerbach, Erich.  Mimesis: The Repesentation
   of Reality in Western Literature.
   Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1953.

But see also ...

Goodenough, Erwin R.  Jewish Symbols in the
   Greco-Roman Period.  Trans. Jacob Neusner.
   Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1990.

This is an abridgement of a 13-volume opus ...

--- davemarc <davemarc at panix.com> wrote:
> I believe that Islam has a longstanding
> anti-figurative tradition.  There
> seem to be relatively few (perhaps scant) examples
> of figurative art in
> Islamic cultures.  I also recall seeing, about 15
> years ago, examples of
> figurative art that were defaced (literally) in the
> name of Islam.
> 
> Disfigurement isn't unique to Islam, of course. 
> Apparently many icons were
> desexualized under the direction of Christian
> missionaries.
> 
> d.
> 


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