Methods of Historiography in Islamic Art
IRAN BOOK NEWS AGENCY
IRAN - Iranian researcher and university professor, Sadegh Rashidi has compiled "Methods of historiography in Islamic art". According to him the book is the first research work which seriously criticizes and studies the methods of Islamic art historiography. Firstly the book presented the historiography methods as 3 styles; descriptive, analytical and historical and then discusses the methods in the Islamic art. He underlined:" In fact the book holds a main question; what were the ups and downs of the Islamic art historiography, which was firstly presented by western historians and what kind of gaps and deficiencies existed in the process." He added:" I believe that knowing the Islamic art and its historiography requires knowing the Islamic culture and civilization. Thus due to the ignorance some western historians have studies the Islamic art with a positivism approach, on the other hand the book somehow evaluates the history of Islamic art historiography." [link]
IRAN - Iranian researcher and university professor, Sadegh Rashidi has compiled "Methods of historiography in Islamic art". According to him the book is the first research work which seriously criticizes and studies the methods of Islamic art historiography. Firstly the book presented the historiography methods as 3 styles; descriptive, analytical and historical and then discusses the methods in the Islamic art. He underlined:" In fact the book holds a main question; what were the ups and downs of the Islamic art historiography, which was firstly presented by western historians and what kind of gaps and deficiencies existed in the process." He added:" I believe that knowing the Islamic art and its historiography requires knowing the Islamic culture and civilization. Thus due to the ignorance some western historians have studies the Islamic art with a positivism approach, on the other hand the book somehow evaluates the history of Islamic art historiography." [link]
