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In religious environments, for instance the mosaics of the Dome of the Rock and the Umayyad Great Mosque of Damascus, vegetal motifs have been interpreted as referring to the flora of paradise, the fertility ever-present in the proximity of God.
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Prado-Vilar, Francisco. 1997. Circular Visions of Fertility and Punishment: Caliphal Ivory Caskets from al-Andalus. In Muqarnas XIV: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World. Gülru Necipoglu (ed). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 19-41.
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