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Elias, Jamal J.         Aisha's cushion : religious art, perception, and practice in Islam / Jamal J. Elias . – Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012         x, 404 p., 8 p. of plates : 8 ill. ; 24 cm.         Prologue: the promise of a meaningful image -- Representation, resemblance and religion -- The icon and the idol -- Iconoclasm, iconophobia and Islam -- Idols, icons and images in Islam -- Beauty, goodness, and wonder -- Alchemy, appearance and essence -- Dreams, visions and the imagination -- Sufism and the metaphysics of resemblance -- Words, pictures and signs -- Legibility, iconicity and monumental writing.         ISBN9780674058064 (alk. paper) :         ISBN0674058062 (alk. paper) :         1. Islam and art.