Billet of the research book “The world of jinns” (djinns.hypotheses.org), programme of the colloquium Islamic occultism in theory and practice. From 6 to 8 January 2017, a colloquium takes place in Headley Lecture Theatre at Oxford University “Islamic occultism in theory and practice”. It is organis...

In scholarship on Persian book arts, paintings have tended to be organized according to a rise-and-fall model. Within this overarching framework, the Ilkhanid period represents the birth of painting and the Qajar era its supposed decline, while Timurid and Safavid painting mark a high point for the...

the question of images works in minds, particularly when it comes to their presence in the Arab and Muslim worlds. While Christiane Gruber and Sune Haugbolle give up — regrettably — in the introduction of Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East, the necessary exercise to counter this representation...

Professor Christiane Gruber Department of the History of Art University of Michigan Admission free; pre-registration not required London, 18 November 2015, 5.00 pm Warburg Institute Woburn Square London WC1H 0AB

• دلائل نبوة محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم قبل بعثته (إرهاصات نبوية)، خالد عبد القادر، دمشق: المكتب الإسلامي للطباعة والنشر، 2010م، 280 صفحة. • حقائق وشبهات حول السنة النبوية، محمد عمارة، القاهرة: دار السلام للطباعة والنشر والتوزيع والترجمة، ط1، 2010م، 208 صفحة. • منهجية ابن خلدون في تدوين السيرة ال...

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Conférence Visual Representations of Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Lands from  the Pre-Modern Periods to Contemporar Iran Christiane GRUBER (Associate Professor of Islamic Art, University of Michigan, USA) Pedram KHOSRONEJAD, chair John TOLEN (Professor of History, University of Nantes, France) 5 Mars...