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    Islamic Geometries: Spiritual Affects Against a Secularist Grid.Wendy M. K. Shaw - 2022 - Sophia 61 (1):41-59.
    Discussions of surface pattern in Islamic art resonate within broader tensions about the role of figural representation in communicating meaning. The question of whether geometric pattern communicates—whether it functions as a language without a code—reflects broader tensions about the relationship between secular and spiritual communication. Poised between discussions of modernism and Islam, the attribution of linguistic capacity to geometry serves as a measure for the possibility of abstracting pure reason from the religious roots of representationalism. This paper explores this question (...)
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    Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire.Gary Beckman & Wendy M. K. Shaw - 2004 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 124 (1):203.
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