Christiane Gruber

The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images

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1. In this book Christiane Gruber takes up the important and controversial issue of representations of Muhammad (both visual and verbal) and carefully traces the history of Muhammad in the Islamic imaginary. This will be the definitive study of visual and material devotion to the Prophet Muhammad-and of central importance to current debates about Islam and representation. 2. Gruber's articles on the Charlie Hebdo incident for Newsweek went viral-and she says the response from Muslims has been positive, including some who sent her other representations of the prophet in their possession. 3. Gruber is a reknown senior scholar of Islamic art. Sh… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-253-02526-5
EAN: 9780253025265
Produktnummer: 25394520
Verlag: Indiana Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 412 S.
Masse: H28.7 cm x B23.0 cm x D3.5 cm 1'898 g
Gewicht: 1898
Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.

Über den Autor

Christiane Gruber is Associate Professor of Islamic Art at the University of Michigan. She is editor of The Islamic Manuscript Tradition (IUP 2009) and (with Frederick S. Colby) of The Prophet's Ascension: Cross-Cultural Encounters with the Islamic Mi'raj Tales (IUP, 2009) and author of The Timurid Book of Ascension (Mi'rajnama): A Study of Text and Image in a Pan-Asian Context and The Ilkhanid Book of Ascension: A Persian-Sunni Prayer Manual.