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Circular Visions of Fertility and Punishment: Caliphal Ivory Caskets from al-Andalus

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07/12/2020

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Article

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Islamic Culture

Author

FRANCISCO PRADO-VILAR

Year of Publication

1997


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In religious environments, for instance the mosaics of the Dome of the Rock and the Umayyad Great Mosque of Damascus, vegetal motifs have been interpreted as referring to the flora of paradise, the fertility ever-present in the proximity of God.


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