{
 "id": "concept/aniconism-in-islam",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "aniconism-in-islam",
 "label": {
  "ar": "تجنب التصوير في الإسلام",
  "en": "Aniconism in Islam"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "اجتناب تصوير ذوات الأرواح في الفن الإسلامي الرسمي خاصة في العبادة؛ قاعدة رسمت مسار الفن الإسلامي نحو الخط والزخرفة.",
  "en": "The avoidance of depicting sentient beings in formal Islamic art, especially in worship; a rule that channelled Islamic art toward calligraphy and ornament."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "images-and-figural-art",
  "creed"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "term",
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q669432"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), arts lane; via Wikidata, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "اجتناب تصوير ذوات الأرواح في الفن الإسلامي الرسمي خاصة في العبادة؛ قاعدة رسمت مسار الفن الإسلامي نحو الخط والزخرفة. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/aniconism-in-islam",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Avoiding the depiction of living beings in official Islamic art, especially in worship. This principle shaped the course of Islamic art towards calligraphy and ornament. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/aniconism-in-islam",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/ahl-al-qibla",
  "concept/akhira",
  "concept/ashara-mubashshara",
  "concept/ashrat-al-saa",
  "concept/bida",
  "concept/ghayba",
  "concept/hubb-al-sahaba",
  "concept/huduth-al-alam"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}