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Astrology in islamic art4/13/2024 The COVID-19 outbreak is proving a test of our physical and emotional endurance as well as our trust in science. Her latest publications are her third monograph The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images (2019) and her edited volume The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World (2019). Her fields of interest include Islamic ascension texts and images, depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, book arts, amulets and talismans, codicology, paleography, architecture, and visual and material culture from the medieval period to today. Just as in the present, when people around the world seek comfort in homemade remedies to alleviate their fear of the pandemic, historically during times of plague, amulets, blessed water, and even talismanic shirts have been drawn on for safety and healing.Ĭhristiane Gruber is Professor and Chair in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor President-Elect of the Historians of Islamic Art Association and Founding Director of Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online. Throughout the history of Islamic societies, ordinary objects have become vessels for connecting with the divine and seeking protection in trying circumstances. This is the first of a three-part series on arts associated with protection and healing in Islam by Professor Christiane Gruber.
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