Islamic art & spirituality
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- United Kingdom : Golgonooza Press, c1987.
- x, 213 p. , [16] p. of plates: ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: The Relation between Islamic art and Islamic spirituality The spiritual message of Islamic calligraphy The principle of unity and the sacred architecture of Islam Sacred art in Persian culture Metaphysics, logic, and poetry in the Orient The flight of birds to union: meditations upon Attar's mantiq-al-tayr Rumi, supreme poet and sage Rumi, and the sufi tradition Islam and music The influence of sufism on traditional Persian music The world of imagination and the concept of space in the Persian miniature The significance of the void in Islamic art The spiritual message of Islamic art