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It's a basic and perennial problem of religious art,
這是宗教藝術(shù)長期存在的基本問題
which all religions must face.
所有宗教都必須面對
But they take different views of how to handle it.
但它們對此的處理方法則各不相同
And of religious imagery more generally.
更普遍地說是宗教意象的問題
Out on the rural fringes of Istanbul
伊斯坦布爾的邊遠鄉(xiāng)村
is one of the most striking religious creations of modern times.
豎立著最令人驚嘆的現(xiàn)代宗教藝術(shù)品之一
It appeared on the landscape less than a decade ago
它在這里出現(xiàn)還不過十年
and has drawn people in ever since.
自那以后一直吸引著各地的人們
It's the Sancaklar Mosque...
這就是?？死逭嫠?/div>
..The work of one of Turkey's most visionary architects.
出自土耳其最具想象力的建筑師之一
This is one of the most startling mosques in the world.
這是世界上最令人嘆為觀止的清真寺之一
What the architects wanted to do
建筑師想要
is to harness the power of modernism,
利用通常被看作是非常世俗運動的
which is often thought of as a very secular movement,
現(xiàn)代主義表現(xiàn)手法
to express the very essence of religious space,
來表達宗教空間的本質(zhì)
stripped of all the non-essentials.
褪去一切不必要的元素
And it's certainly untraditional in all kinds of ways.
這在各種意義上都絕對顛覆了傳統(tǒng)
But, in other ways,
但從其他方面來看
it's exploiting the traditions of Islam very heavily.
它也深入挖掘了伊斯蘭教的傳統(tǒng)
This inside space is meant to be reminiscent of the Cave of Hira,
這個內(nèi)部空間是為了使人聯(lián)想起希拉山洞
where the Prophet Muhammad first received
先知穆罕默德就是在那里第一次得到了
the revelation of the Word of God that became the Koran.
真主阿拉的啟示 也就是后來的《古蘭經(jīng)》
And, of course,
當然
it also evokes one of the classic stereotypes
它也喚起了如今許多人
that many people now have of Islam,
對伊斯蘭教懷有的刻板印象
that it's a religion that is in some way artless.
即這是一個在某種意義上缺乏藝術(shù)的宗教
That it prohibits not just the image of God and the Prophet,
它不僅禁止真主與先知的肖像
but the images of living creatures which only the creator, God,
還禁止只有創(chuàng)世主真主才能創(chuàng)造的
is supposed to be able to create.
生物的圖像
