The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World Gruber Christiane
The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World Gruber Christiane The images released by the Islamic State of militants smashing statues at ancient sites were a horrifying…
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The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World Gruber Christiane
The images released by the Islamic State of militants smashing statues at ancient sites were a horrifying aspect of their advance across Northern Iraq and Syria during 2015-16. Written by leading academics from the United States, Australia, Turkey, Israel and the United Kingdom, the book has a foreword by Stefano Carboni, Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, followed by an introduction by the editor Christiane Gruber, who sets the subject in context with a detailed examination of Their leaders justified this iconoclasm by arguing that such actions were divinely decreed in Islam, a notion that has remained fixed in the public consciousness.The Image Debate is a collection of thirteen essays which examine the controversy surrounding the use of images in Islamic and other religious cultures and seek to redress some of the misunderstandings that have arisen.