Muhammad at the Museum: Or, Why the Prophet Is Not Present

This article analyses museum responses to the contemporary tensions and violence in response to images of Muhammad, from The Satanic Verses to Charlie Hebdo. How does this socio-political frame effect the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, the V&A and British Museum in London, and the Louvre in P...

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主要作者: Grinell, Klas 1969- (Author)
格式: 电子 文件
语言:English
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出版: MDPI [2019]
In: Religions
Year: 2019, 卷: 10, 发布: 12
Further subjects:B Muhammad
B Collection management
B Islamic art
B Images
B Exhibitions
B Museums
B 伊斯兰教
B Islamicate cultural heritage
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总结:This article analyses museum responses to the contemporary tensions and violence in response to images of Muhammad, from The Satanic Verses to Charlie Hebdo. How does this socio-political frame effect the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, the V&A and British Museum in London, and the Louvre in Paris? Different genres of museums and histories of collections in part explain differences in approaches to representations of Muhammad. The theological groundings for a possible ban on prophetic depictions is charted, as well as the widespread Islamic practices of making visual representations of the Prophet. It is argued that museological framings of the religiosity of Muslims become skewed when the veneration of the Prophet is not represented.
ISSN:2077-1444
Contains:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel10120665