Rejecting the Image

Living With The Gods by BBC

Nov 16, 201714:11Society & Culture

Neil MacGregor's series on the role and expression of beliefs continues with a reflection on faiths which focus on the word rather than the image. A striking cobalt blue mosque lamp, from around 1570, shows an Islamic wa...

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