Editing Iblis (section)

=== In arts ===
{{Further|Angels in art#Islamic art}}
[[File:Iblis_with_turban.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Another painting of angels prostrating before Adam with Iblis refusing, here depicted with a headcover]]
[[File:Siyah Qalem - Hazine 2153, s.31b.jpg|thumb|Portrayal of Islamic devils in the form of wild monsters. Siyah Qalem - Hazine 2153, s.31b]]

Iblis is perhaps one of the most well-known individual supernatural entities in Islamic tradition and was depicted in multiple visual representations like the Quran and Manuscripts of Bal‘ami's ''‘Tarjamah-i Tarikh-i Tabari''.{{sfnp|Leoni|2012|pp=153–154}} Iblis was a unique individual, described as both a pious jinni and an angel before he fell from God's grace when he refused to bow before the prophet [[Adam in Islam|Adam]]. After this incident, Iblis turned into a ''[[Shayatin|shaytan]]''.{{sfnp|Leoni|2012|p=3}} In visual appearance, Iblis' depiction was described in ''On the Monstrous in the Islamic Visual Tradition'' by Francesca Leoni as a being with a human-like body with flaming eyes, a tail, claws, and large horns on a grossly disproportionate large head.{{sfnp|Leoni|2012|pp=5–6}}

Illustrations of Iblis in Islamic paintings often depict him black-faced, a feature which would later symbolize any satanic figure or heretic, and with a black body, to symbolize his corrupted nature. Another common depiction of Iblis shows him in human form wearing a special head covering, clearly different from the traditional Islamic turban and long sleeves, signifying long lasting devotion to God.{{sfnp|Kuehn|2019}} Only in one, he wears traditional Islamic head covering.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Na'ama|last1=Brosh|first2=Rachel|last2=Milstein|first3=Muzeʼon|last3=Yiśraʼel|title=Biblical stories in Islamic painting|publisher=[[Israel Museum]]|location=Jerusalem|date=1991|asin=B0006F66PC|page=27}}</ref>

Most pictures show and describe Iblis at the moment, when the angels prostrate themselves before Adam. In the manuscripts of Bal‘ami's ‘''Tarjamah-i Tarikh-i Tabari'' he is usually seen beyond the outcrop, his face transformed with his wings burned, to the envious countenance of a devil.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Walter|last1=Melion|first2=Michael|last2=Zell|first3=Joanna|last3=Woodall|title=Ut pictura amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500–1700|publisher=[[Brill Publishers]]|location=Leiden, Netherlands|date=2017|isbn=978-9-004-34646-8|page=240}}</ref> In his demonic form, Iblis is portrayed similar to his cohorts (''shayāṭīn'') in Turko-Persian art as Asian demons (''Dīv'').<ref name="Dmitriy">{{cite journal |last1=Dmitriy |first1=Dmitriy |title=Bad Spirits in Turkish Art |journal=Turkish Art. Social Sciences |date=2020 |volume=1 |issue=21 |pages=59–88}}</ref> They are bangled creatures with flaming eyes, only covered by a short skirt. Similar to European arts depicting devils by traits of pagan deities, Islamic arts portray the devils with features often similar to that of Hindu deities.<ref name="b778">{{cite book | last1=Lewisohn | first1=L. | last2=Shackle | first2=C. | title=Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition | publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing | publication-place=London | date=2006-11-22 | isbn=978-1-78673-018-3 | pages=156–158}}</ref>