Abstract
This paper intends to know how Qur’ānic Scripture influenced prevailing values of art and aesthetics with an exclusive Islamic worldview and contribution. It is an important aspect of Islamic civilization which may be studied from the very beginning of Islamic history along with later developments examining critically various characteristics of Islamic aesthetics. Employing analytical method, we came to know Qur’ānic Scripture as a precursor of Islamic aesthetics and raison d'être for Islamic culture and civilization. It functions as super hand in the Islamic cultural ingredient changing ideas and thought totally or partially ameliorating prevailing social standards. This discourse makes it clear that the Islamic foundation of aesthetics is one of the contemporary matter of the Prophetic era. By dint of this study, one may become familiar with the concept that how art and aesthetics were welcomed, customized, innovated and transferred after their infiltration as per Islamic norms inculcating values. Islamic civilization warmly welcomed to any alien sorts of aesthetic reflection trimming its irrelevancy off in the light of Tawḥīd showing harmony exercising within its own domain, identity and unique weltanschauung. Hence, Qur’ānic Scripture vis-à-vis Islamic aesthetics has self-explanatory evidences of its origin, distinctive historical promotion and its identity in different cultural diversity.
Highlights
Introduction with Preliminary DiscourseThe paper aims at studying the impacts of Qur’ānic Scripture and their contribution to Islamic civilization for promoting art and beauty
Bauman stated in ‘Liquid Modernity’ as: “ at the very centre of Islamic aesthetics, we find the garden a liquid image ... which moves from the theme of paradise as a garden.”22
He stated that Islam gave a timeless solution for the aesthetics which is said to be the “absolute status in the relativity of space and time.”53 various dimensions are there but here we may quote briefly remarks of Isma‘īl Rājī al-Fārūqī Islamic Aesthetics vis-à-vis Tawḥīd as: “We find that the whole iconography of Islamic art has been significantly influenced by the Qur’ānic doctrine of Tawḥīd or Islamic monotheism.”54
Summary
Impact of Qur’ān upon Aesthetics and its Evolution selected relevant discussions regarding beauty and aesthetics (jamāliyāt) examining critically the emergence of Islamic aesthetics, its development, expansion and changes happening after the Holy Prophet’s era. Introducing aesthetics as a distinct discourse of philosophy, he argued to provide a different type of knowledge from the distinct and abstract ideas studied by ‘logic.’ According to ‘The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms’ aesthetics is defined as: “Philosophical investigation into the nature of beauty and the perception of beauty, especially in the arts, the theory of art or of artistic taste.”. Islamic aesthetics incorporates epistemologically physical and metaphysical range and compass to define an object and its relative beauty This preliminary discourse may help us to examine how Islamic concept of aesthetics incorporates these aspects and what is the influence of the Holy Qur’ān upon aesthetic values converting them as Islamic one along with solely new participation and cultural impact
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