Conflation of celestial and physical topographies in the Omani decorated miḥrāb

Contenu

Titre

Conflation of celestial and physical topographies in the Omani decorated miḥrāb

Créateur

Bandyopadhyay, Soumyen Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2010

Dans

Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

Thispaperdiscussestheroleandoverlappingmeaningoftwokeythemespersistenwt ithintheOmanidecorativetraditions,tars anddatepalms,byfocusingonthedecoratedprayerniches(mahãrfbs,g.mihrãbo) fOman.Italso addressesthecloseconnection betweenconceptionosftopographiynOmanicultureandthearticulatioonfthresholdbs,othsacredanddomesticT. hepaperargues thatan attempttoconnectthecelestialandphysicaltopographicconceptiontshatis attheheartofthecomplexwaterdistribution strategyoftheaflãjirrigatiosnystemalso prevailsin themihrãbT. he Ibadï artisanof Omanintegraterdepresentatioonfsboth continuouasndinstantaneoutismeemployintgheendlessknotandstellarmotifsE.mphasizingthesacrednatureoftimeandlightas divineattributeosressenceofGod,themihrãbsoughttorepresenatcelestialtopographyw,hichwas madepossiblethroughIbadï analogicalinterpretatioonfsanthropomorphiisnmtheQurDanandan expandinginfluencoefmysticismamongstOmanischolars. Omanimihrãband doordecorationshowsa close affinitbyetweenstellarand date-palmrepresentationtsh,elatteralso heldin sacredesteeminOman.Theaflãjirrigatiosnystemoncedependedsignificantolyn thepositionofstarsinthenightskytoensure thedistributioonfwaterT. heinterchangeabrlepresentatiosunggestsa conflatioonftheterrestritaolpographoyftheoasisandthe celestialtopographyTh. ehorizonmediatedthisrelationshipac,tingas a thresholtdhroughwhichthecelestialbodieshadtopassto be meaningfulalyssociatedwiththeterrestritaolpographyA.ppearingas woventapestrieosrboundedspatialrepresentationbso,th themihrãbandtheOmanidoorwaydecorationmarka thresholidnthesacredandsecularpassage.

Langue

eng

volume

40

pages

99-110

uri

http://www.jstor.org/stable/41224010

Bandyopadhyay, Soumyen, “Conflation of celestial and physical topographies in the Omani decorated miḥrāb”, 2010, bibliographie, consulté le 18 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/5035