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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Taylor & Francis
[2016]
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Material religion
Année: 2016, Volume: 12, Numéro: 3, Pages: 259-293 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Iran
/ Muḥammad 570-632
/ Image
/ Objet (Philosophie)
/ Culture matérielle
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Vie religieuse BJ Islam KBL Proche-Orient et Afrique du Nord |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
the Prophet Muhammad
B Carnival B Iran B Shi'ism B Islamic visual and material culture B Martyrdom |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Résumé: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2016.1192148 |