Crossing Boundaries, Creating Images: In Search of the Prophet Muhammad in Literary and Visual Traditions
Institute for Art History LMU
Cooperation project at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence/Max-Planck-Institut
The interdisciplinary research project entitled 'Crossing Boundaries, Creating Images: In Search of the Prophet Muhammad in Literary and Visual Traditions' seeks to explore the multiple ways in which the Prophet Muhammad has been described and depicted in European traditions from the medieval era until the early modern period. European materials that are examined include Latin translations of the Qur'an and vitas of the Prophet in Latin and Romance languages, illustrated medieval French and Italian manuscripts containing historical and belletristic texts, European printed books, sculptures, frescoes, and stained glass windows, as well as Euro-American Orientalist and Romantic paintings. The results of this research project will be published as a corpus, in which the visual materials as well as the literary sources are compiled, translated into English, and discussed.
PUBLICATION: Constructing the Image of Muhammad in Europe. Berlin: De Gruyter 2013.
| Projektzeitraum | 2007 - 2012 |
| Projektleitung | Dr. Christiane Gruber, Indiana University, Bloomington (Senior Research Fellow am Max Planck Institut), Prof. Dr. Avinoam Shalem, Institut für Kunstgeschichte München (Max Planck Fellow) |
| Förderung | Max Planck Foundation |