Judaism, Islam, and Christianity use visual imagery to distinguish themselves
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By Asiem el Difraoui and Antonia Blau
Nowhere does the Koran forbid images. Moreover, Muslims also wanted to distinguish themselves from Christianity, which itself debated the issue of imagery for a long time before St John of Damascus finally won the war of the icons. As a Father of the Early Church, a man who was highly knowledgeable about Islam and a minister of a caliph, John of Damascus was himself probably trying to draw a distinction between Christianity and Islam and even Judaism, which is why he allowed the Church to make the visual its principal means of communication. [link]
By Asiem el Difraoui and Antonia Blau
Nowhere does the Koran forbid images. Moreover, Muslims also wanted to distinguish themselves from Christianity, which itself debated the issue of imagery for a long time before St John of Damascus finally won the war of the icons. As a Father of the Early Church, a man who was highly knowledgeable about Islam and a minister of a caliph, John of Damascus was himself probably trying to draw a distinction between Christianity and Islam and even Judaism, which is why he allowed the Church to make the visual its principal means of communication. [link]
