By Jamal J. Elias

Westerners have a robust effect that Islam doesn't enable spiritual imagery. Elias corrects this view. Unearthing colors of which means in Islamic notion all through historical past, he argues that Islamic views on illustration and belief may be sought in varied components reminiscent of optics, alchemy, dreaming, car ornament, Sufi metaphysics.

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