Prophetic products: Muhammad in contemporary Iranian visual culture

Much like religious objects produced and consumed elsewhere in the Islamic world, images of Muhammad are often associated with acts of play and worship, their power to cultivate joy and direct religious feelings in various faith communities strengthened in large part by their remove from the commodi...

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1. VerfasserIn: Gruber, Christiane 1976- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Taylor & Francis [2016]
In: Material religion
Jahr: 2016, Band: 12, Heft: 3, Seiten: 259-293
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Iran / Muḥammad 570-632 / Изображение (мотив) / Объект (философия, мотив) (Философия (мотив)) / Материальная культура
RelBib Classification:AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
BJ Islam
KBL Naher Osten; Nordafrika
weitere Schlagwörter:B the Prophet Muhammad
B Carnival
B Iran
B Shi'ism
B Islamic visual and material culture
B Martyrdom
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Zusammenfassung:Much like religious objects produced and consumed elsewhere in the Islamic world, images of Muhammad are often associated with acts of play and worship, their power to cultivate joy and direct religious feelings in various faith communities strengthened in large part by their remove from the commodity situation. As scholars of visual and material culture have highlighted, a product is never merely an object to be acquired and used, stripped of symbolic import and application. On the contrary, it is a thoroughly socialized commodity central to cultural practices of exchange - of sending and receiving social messages - that take place in regimes of value. Within postrevolutionary Iran in particular, images and objects depicting the Prophet Muhammad have been manufactured en masse over the past three decades, catering to official regime ideology and popular devotional practices alike. This study explores how these types of prophetic products serve to visually reinforce and materially reify narratives about the ascendancy of the Shi'i faith, the legitimacy of Islamic governance, and the value of martyrdom within the larger religious and political landscape of contemporary Iran.
ISSN:1751-8342
Enthält:Enthalten in: Material religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2016.1192148