Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm, and the Museum. (cover story)

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  • Author(s): Flood, Finbarr Barry
  • Source:
    Art Bulletin. Dec2002, Vol. 84 Issue 4, p641. 19p. 1 Color Photograph, 8 Black and White Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      ICONOCLASM; ISLAM; BUDDHISM
    • Subject Terms:
      AFGHANISTAN
    • Abstract:
      Explores Islamic iconoclasm exemplified in the destruction of the rock-cut Buddhas at Bamiyan by the former Taliban government of Afghanistan. Aspects of traditional scholarship on Islamic iconoclasm; Bases of the opposition to figuration in Islam; Activities of medieval iconoclasts in the Bamiyan Valley.