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Crossing Boundaries, Creating Images: In Search of the Prophet Muhammad in Literary and Visual Traditions (with a focus on Representations of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Painting)

Christiane Gruber

Christiane Gruber is currently serving as Managing Director of the research project. Her primary responsibility consists of organizing the international conference on texts and images of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic and Euro-American traditions, scheduled for July 2009 (see above), and afterwards editing the proceedings of this interdisciplinary conference on European and Islamic texts and images together with Avinoam Shalem.

While spending time at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz in 2008 she studied Islamic materials in an attempt to highlight the various ways in which Muhammad was constructed and imagined in Islamic lands from ca. 1200 to today, emphasizing in particular the effect of literary allegory and abstracting visual techniques on the creation of the persona and the image of the Prophet of Islam. She has recently completed an article entitled "From Logos ('Kalima') to Light ('Nur'): Representations of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Painting", which will appear in the journal Muqarnas in spring 2009. Her presentation and article for the conference at the Institute in July 2009 will address late Ottoman calligraphic icons ('hilyas') and the abstraction of the Prophet to flora and aroma in textual and visual production by means of the analogy of the rose as heavenly and sweet-smelling.

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