Essays about: "islamic art"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words islamic art.

  1. 1. The roots of Arab Islam as a state identity; A numismatic approach to the emergence of Arab Islam as a public identity in the Near East during the rule of ‘Abd al-Malik (685-705 C.E.)

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Amer Sare; [2023]
    Keywords : Philosophy and Religion; Social Sciences; Arts and Architecture; History and Archaeology; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : The ideas and interests of how to move forward with the new religion and its new caliphate during the first century of Islam, were often varied and were in conflict. In the year 77 A.H (696-697 C.E. READ MORE

  3. 2. Persian Pixels : An Ethnography of the Iranian Video Game Industry

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för speldesign

    Author : Kamiab Ghorbanpour; [2022]
    Keywords : Computer games; Ethnography; The Islamic Republic of Iran; Persia; Video game industry; Persian; Iranian.;

    Abstract : There are several studies on the video game industry in Iran, and most of them are primarily focused on state-funded organizations which produce politically motivated games to push the geopolitical and domestic goals of the government. However, there is a lot more to the Iranian video game industry, one of which is the dichotomic nature of the private enterprises and their contrast with the mentioned state-funded products. READ MORE

  4. 3. Euro-Islamic identity?: An example of hybrid identities in contemporary Europe

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Payam Ghiaci; [2016-09-22]
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    Abstract : In-mass presence of Muslims in Europe dates back several decades ago, after Second World War; a presence which has been intricate since the beginning. After many years, Europe-born generations of Muslim immigrants are yet facing the very same question as their parents: How to identify themselves in Christian/secular European societies; how to be neither submissive nor self-alienated as a Muslim in contemporary Europe. READ MORE

  5. 4. Contemporary Iranian Women Artists in Exile - Art Embodying Feelings of Estrangement between Place of Origin and USA

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Maysam Fahad; [2016]
    Keywords : Belonging; Contemporary Iranian Women Artists; Exile; Estrangement; Islamic Revolution 1979 Post Revolution; Cultural Sciences;

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  6. 5. Performing islam in europe : a case study of Poetic Pilgrimage´s performance of empowerment in-between art and religion

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier

    Author : Elisabete Suzana; [2013]
    Keywords : Islam in Europe; Critical Race; Performance; Afrocentric Islam; Black; Muslim; Womanhood; Islamic Hip Hop; Youth Culture; Empowerment;

    Abstract : In this thesis I explore performances of empowerment in the work and artistic persona of Londonbased hip hop duo Poetic Pilgrimage. By using intersectionality, critical race and performance theories, I sketched a possible reading of their performance of religion in the complex context of their positionality as black, british, women, muslim converts and performing artists. READ MORE