HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Question
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They didn’t have any important people to paint pictures of.
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They liked drawing pictures of nature better.
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Nature was the most important thing to Muslims.
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They forbid idol worhsip
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Islamic resistance to the representation of living beings ultimately stems from the belief that the creation of living forms is unique to God, and it is for this reason that the role of images and image makers has been controversial.
Detailed explanation-2: -Muslim scholars all agree that it is prohibited for Muslims to worship statues because it makes them idolatrous.
Detailed explanation-3: -Martin Luther warned that images could “promote blasphemy and cause loss of faith.” This rejection of visual depictions in the history of religion protected early monotheism. All three Abrahamic religions-Judaism, Christianity and Islam-feared the wrath of God if they did not apply it.
Detailed explanation-4: -Islamic religious arts cannot depict images of God. Nor can they depict stylized human forms which are common among Christian books and paintings.
Detailed explanation-5: -Unlike many other forms of livestock, pigs are omnivorous scavengers, eating virtually anything they come across, including carrion and refuse, which was deemed unclean. Furthermore, a Middle Eastern society keeping large stocks of pigs could destroy their ecosystem.