{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] The Late Period [continued (10)]}[21st April 1991]

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The key* may lie in the opening words of the E[ncyclopaedia] of V[isual] A[rts] Chapter:** ‘There is under Islam no distinction between sacred and secular....’*** and the continuing emphasis on the unity of Islamdom**** over and beyond all its age-old military-political strife. If Islamdom really is conceptually a political and cultural unity from 622CE until now, then all wars between Muslims may properly be perceived as civil wars in a way which is much more arbitrary when applied to European international wars.#

Of course, this is to give Muslim orthodoxy the benefit of a great deal of doubt; but the way in which the culture continues #* despite changes of ruling class does tend to support this interpretation.

Mind you, Christian European culture shows continuity too....

*[to interpreting &/or identifying Islamic cultural cycles, presumably]

**[Chapter 24 (in Volume III), ‘Islamic Art’]

***[ – ibid Encyclopaedia of Visual Arts 3:424]

ref [[Redbook9:150][19910421:1410b]{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] [Artistic Unity]}[21st April 1991],] 150

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#ref [[Redbook9:129][19910420:0953]{Scales}[20th April 1991],] 129

#*ref [last previous ts journal entry,] 174

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