Christiane Gruber is professor of Islamic Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her primary field of research include Islamic book arts, figural painting, depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. She is the author of The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images.

• Stefano Carboni – ForewordChristiane Gruber – Idols and Figural Images in Islam: A Brief Dive into a Perennial DebatePart 1: Pre-Modern IslamMika Natif – ‘Painters Will Be Punished’: The Politics of Figural RepresentationAmongst the UmayyadsFinbarr Barry Flood – Signs of Silence: Epigraphic Erasure and the Image of the WordOya Pancaroğlu – Conditions of Love and Conventions of Representation in the IllustratedManuscript of Varqa and GulshahPart 2: Beyond the Islamic worldAlicia Walker – Iconomachy in ByzantiumSteven Fine – The Image in Jewish ArtMichael Shenkar – Religious Imagery and Image-Making in pre-Islamic Iran and Central AsiaRobert Decaroli – Conspicuous Absences: The Avoidance and Use of Images in Early South Asian ArtPart 3: Modern and Contemporary IslamYousuf Saeed – The Figural Image in Islamic Devotional Art of the Indian SubcontinentJames Bennett – The Shadow Puppet: A South-East Asian Islamic AestheticAllen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts – Enigma and Purpose: Visual Hagiographies of Urban SenegalRose Issa – Figures of Protest in Contemporary Arab and Iranian ArtShiva Balaghi – Only for My Shadow: Figuration in Contemporary Iranian Art

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Christiane Gruber is professor of Islamic Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her primary field of research include Islamic book arts, figural painting, depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. She is the author of The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images.

• Stefano Carboni – ForewordChristiane Gruber – Idols and Figural Images in Islam: A Brief Dive into a Perennial DebatePart 1: Pre-Modern IslamMika Natif – ‘Painters Will Be Punished’: The Politics of Figural RepresentationAmongst the UmayyadsFinbarr Barry Flood – Signs of Silence: Epigraphic Erasure and the Image of the WordOya Pancaroğlu – Conditions of Love and Conventions of Representation in the IllustratedManuscript of Varqa and GulshahPart 2: Beyond the Islamic worldAlicia Walker – Iconomachy in ByzantiumSteven Fine – The Image in Jewish ArtMichael Shenkar – Religious Imagery and Image-Making in pre-Islamic Iran and Central AsiaRobert Decaroli – Conspicuous Absences: The Avoidance and Use of Images in Early South Asian ArtPart 3: Modern and Contemporary IslamYousuf Saeed – The Figural Image in Islamic Devotional Art of the Indian SubcontinentJames Bennett – The Shadow Puppet: A South-East Asian Islamic AestheticAllen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts – Enigma and Purpose: Visual Hagiographies of Urban SenegalRose Issa – Figures of Protest in Contemporary Arab and Iranian ArtShiva Balaghi – Only for My Shadow: Figuration in Contemporary Iranian Art

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Christiane Gruber is professor of Islamic Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her primary field of research include Islamic book arts, figural painting, depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. She is the author of The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images.

• Stefano Carboni – ForewordChristiane Gruber – Idols and Figural Images in Islam: A Brief Dive into a Perennial DebatePart 1: Pre-Modern IslamMika Natif – ‘Painters Will Be Punished’: The Politics of Figural RepresentationAmongst the UmayyadsFinbarr Barry Flood – Signs of Silence: Epigraphic Erasure and the Image of the WordOya Pancaroğlu – Conditions of Love and Conventions of Representation in the IllustratedManuscript of Varqa and GulshahPart 2: Beyond the Islamic worldAlicia Walker – Iconomachy in ByzantiumSteven Fine – The Image in Jewish ArtMichael Shenkar – Religious Imagery and Image-Making in pre-Islamic Iran and Central AsiaRobert Decaroli – Conspicuous Absences: The Avoidance and Use of Images in Early South Asian ArtPart 3: Modern and Contemporary IslamYousuf Saeed – The Figural Image in Islamic Devotional Art of the Indian SubcontinentJames Bennett – The Shadow Puppet: A South-East Asian Islamic AestheticAllen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts – Enigma and Purpose: Visual Hagiographies of Urban SenegalRose Issa – Figures of Protest in Contemporary Arab and Iranian ArtShiva Balaghi – Only for My Shadow: Figuration in Contemporary Iranian Art

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