Kalima, has translated Herman Pleij’s book entitled "Colors Demonic and Divine: Shades of Meaning in the Middle Ages and After" into Arabic.

The author studies and analyses colors and their stance, consequences and impact on our contemporary world.

Dr. Siddiq Mohammed Jawhar, the book’s translator, revised and altered this version. He added many sections of the original book that was published in 1994 to the translated book.

Pleij seeks to study and analyze the color and position and the consequences of that and its impact on our contemporary world.

Jawhar explains in the introduction that this study deals with the phenomenon of colors in the Middle Ages and its ongoing influence on our contemporary world. The study draws its origins from a booklet entitled "Colors in the Middle Ages" the translator prepared in Dutch to "Science Week", a cultural events held in The Netherlands.

The author tells how the colors act as compensation or a recreational means that play an important role in healing humans’ wounds and easing their pains.

He divides his study to 7 chapters which are: "Medieval Notion of Colors"; "Color in Daily Life"; "Beautiful Colors for Mere Enjoyment"; "The Most Beautiful Colors Adorn the Women"; "The Devil’s Pernicious Palettes"; "The Dangers of Yellow, Red, Green and Blue"; and "The Progress of Decoloration".

 

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