What is the actual attitude of islamic art to depictions

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Problem: You often hear that Islamic Art forbids the depiction of living things, especially humans. There has been much recent iconoclasm in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan that involved the statement that the art and architecture in question was blasphemous and an insult to Islam. Yet all of the countries in question have been Muslim for well over a thousand years and the inhabitants had cherished the works of of art that had been destroyed. What is the actual attitude of Islamic Art to depictions of living thing like animals and humans? Where would you find them and where not?

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