Naẓar:Vision, Belief, and Perception in Islamic Cultures

Samer Akkach, Ph.D (1992), FAHA, is Professor of architectural history and theory and Founding Director of the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) at the University of Adelaide. His many works on Islamic intellectual history include ʿIlm: Science, Religion, and Art in Islam (UAP 2019).

• PrefaceNotes to the ReaderList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAperture: Terms, Concepts, and DiscourseSamer Akkach1 Naẓar: The Seen, the Unseen, and the UnseeableSamer Akkach2 Naẓar, Subjectivity, and ‘The Gaze’Wendy M.K. Shawpart 1: The Eye of the Heart3 Human Looking, Divine Gaze: Naẓar in Islamic SpiritualityStephen Hirtenstein4 Seeing with ‘The Eyes of the Heart’: dhikr and fikr as Sources of Insight in Indonesian Islamic ArtVirginia Hookerpart 2: The Eye of the Mind5 Transparency: Ibn Al-Haytham’s Manāẓir and Visual Perception of BeautyEllen Philpott-Teo6 Veiling: Ibn Al-Qaṭṭān’s Aḥkām and the Rules Concerning SeeingSamer Akkachpart 3: Evil Eye, Talismanic Seeing7 May the Envier’s Eye be BlindSakina Nomanbhoy8 Talismanic Seeing: The Induction of Power in Indonesian Zoomorphic ArtJames Bennettpart 4: Gazing Eye, Imaginative Seeing9 The Artist’s Gaze: Visual Representations of the Mughal Hunting LandscapeShaha Parpia10 Vernacular Subjectivity as a Way of Seeing: Visualising Bijapur in Nujūm al-ʿUlūm and Kitāb-i-NaurasSushma GriffinIndex