Re: A question about Islamic art
I've gotten the impression the Persians were on the whole rather irreverent when it came to art - at least if the very detailed miniature paintings of warriors all those arms-history books use are anything to judge by. And the Mamluks seem to have had no compunctions about using very life-like illustrations in their training manuals...
But they were apparently the exceptions. Most others seem to have taken the ban on pictorial representations fairly seriously.
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Re: A question about Islamic art
picturing of humans and allah is forbidden especially in mosques and there are reasons why. however there are some nice pictures made by ottoman artists at this site
http://www.osmanlisanati.com/p10.html
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