Hands at Work Ginan Rauf in Conversation with Nermina Begovic Ginan Rauf | March 12, 2022 Images & Intersections / Visual Culture About Images & Intersections Read the rest of this entry
Jila Peacock on Art, Religion, Shadows, and Iran Neguin Yavari | February 1, 2022 Images & Intersections / Visual Culture About Images & Intersections Neguin Yavari sits down with artist Jila Peacock to discuss her life and work. Read the rest of this entry
A ‘Baptized’ Qurʾān? On a Unique Illuminated Manuscript at the University of Otago Majid Daneshgar | May 18, 2017 Images & Intersections / Libraries & Collections, Visual Culture About Images & Intersections Apart from various errors in the qurʾānic text itself, my report addresses the illuminations and ornaments used in MS 11. These elements, which coincide with those commonly used in Christianity, have prompted me to call this manuscript a ‘baptized’ one. That is, by adding these elements, the copyist may have intended to visually mark this Qurʾān as associated with Christians or Christianity somehow... Read the rest of this entry