TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elias,Jamal J.
TI  - Aisha's cushion: religious art, perception, and practice in Islam
SN  - 9780674058064 (alk. paper)
U1  - 297.2/ 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. 
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Islam and art
N1  - 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
ER  -