Contents
Foreword
Christiane Gruber - Idols and Figural Images in Islam: A Brief Dive into a Perennial Debate
Part 1 - Pre-Modern Islam
Mika Natif - ‘Painters will be Punished’
Finbarr Barry Flood - Signs of Silence: Epigraphic Erasure and the Image of the Word
Oya Pancaroglu - Conditions of Love and Conventions of Representation in the Illustrated Manuscript of Varqa and Gulshah
Part 2 - Beyond the Islamic world
Alicia Walker- Iconomachy in Byzantium
Steven Fine - The Image in Jewish Art
Michael Shenkar - Religious Imagery and Image-Making in Pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia
Robert Decaroli - Conspicuous Absences: The Avoidance and Use of Images in Early South Asian Art
Part 3 Modern and Contemporary Islam
Yousuf Saeed - The Figural Image in Islamic Devotional Art of the Indian Subcontinent
James Bennett - The Shadow Puppet: A South-East Asian Islamic Aesthetic
Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts - Enigma and Purpose: Visual Hagiographies of Urban Senegal
Rose Issa - Figures of Protest in Contemporary Arab and Iranian Art
Shiva Balaghi - Only For My Shadow: Figuration in Contemporary Iranian Art
Contributors