Re-reading and analyzing evil in the pictures of Tahmasabi's dispersed falnama based on the opinions of Islamic thinkers.

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 departent of art, azad universiy of qom, qom, iran
2 Assistant professor, Department of Art, Advancement and Urban Planning Research Center,Najafabad Branch Islamic Azad University, Najafabad , Iran.
Abstract
The problem of evil, which has been repeatedly considered by many Western and Islamic thinkers and from different perspectives, has always been one of the most challenging mental problems of humanity. Islamic philosophers believe that evil is relative. There are two types of definitions for evil: Conceptual definition and example definition. Among the paintings in which examples of evil can often be recognized, there are paintings related to illustrated in Falnama, more popular during the Safavid period, were books for predicting and determining the fortunes and misfortunes of affairs. Good and bad fortune telling is based on a randomly selected picture containing the subject and pictorial symbols of good or evil.
The present research aims to identify the manifestations of evil in the pictures of Tahmasbi's dispersed Falnama based on the opinions of Islamic thinkers. The research method is descriptive-analytical, and the comparative method is used in data analysis. The collection of information is in a library way, and it is in response to these questions: How are the examples of evil shown in the pictures of dispersed Falnama? Moreover, what was the basis of the ruling thinking on drawing the examples of evil in the illustrations of dispersed Falnama? The results show that the examples of evil that appeared in Falnama are based on the opinion of Islamic thinkers. Based on natural, moral and supernatural evil are formed and compatible with them, and the images of supernatural evil are different from other beings and even other types of evil.

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