Critical Thinking within Islam #4: Lecture and text by Silvia Naef
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Silvia Naef is a full professor at the University of Geneva Arabic Department and director of the Master in Middle Eastern Studies degree course (MAMO). She is a specialist in modern Arab art and the issue of images in Islam. In her lecture Islam et images - une relation complexe [Islam and images - a complex relationship] , Silvia Naef refutes the theory that Islam is fundamentally hostile to images.
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In the text accompanying the lecture, Silvia Naef retraces the history of the relationship between Islam and images from the great pre-modern Muslim empires to the appearance of “modern imagery” from the 19th century onwards. Read the text in French, English or Dutch.
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