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- Title
HAND AND FOOT SYMBOLISMS: FROM ROCK ART TO THE QUR'ĀN.
- Authors
Achrati, Ahmed
- Abstract
Wedded to creativity and spirituality since the dawn of humanity, the symbolisms of the hand and the foot have assumed many religious and artistic forms. This essay explores the artistic and religious significance of the hand and foot in the prehistoric rock art of North Africa and Arabia and examines their various ethnographic and mythological expressions in historical times. It then shows how these symbolisms were restructured in the Qur'an to fit a strictly iconoclastic monotheism. It is a multidisciplinary approach to a collective consciousness that finds its roots in an Afroasiatic substrate and its expression in the artistic and linguistic traditions of the eastern and southern coasts of the Mediterranean.
- Subjects
MEDITERRANEAN Region; SYMBOLIST movement (Art); PREHISTORIC art; HAND in art; FOOT in art; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Arabica, 2003, Vol 50, Issue 4, p464
- ISSN
0570-5398
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/157005803322616911