Of serpents and dragons in Islamic art and related animals : an iconograpical study /

In the medieval Muslim world, the dragon was the most frequently represented fabulous beast. This applied across styles and media and in both sacred and secular contexts. Yet its prominence is marked by seemingly contradictory representations. Like Plato's "Pharmakon, "; the dragon wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Daneshvari, Abbas (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Costa Mesa, CA : Mazda Publishers, 2021.
Edition:	Expanded and revised edition.
Series:	Bibliotheca Iranica. Islamic art and architecture series ; 13.
Subjects:	Dragons in art. Serpents in art. Islamic art and symbolism. Islamische Kunst. Drachen. Schlangen. Motiv. Ikonographie.

Table of Contents:

Background information
Names, types and attributes
The intrepid hero
Astrocosmological symbolism of the dragon
The dragon at the navel of the earth
Hybrid representations of dragons and serpents
Dragons, opium and "the kitab al-diryaq"
Dragons in the cult of the saints.