[Reader-list] European Moments in the Making of Islam’s “Image Problem”: Golden Jubilee Lecture by Finbarr Barry Flood

[Praveen Rai]

 * *Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
invites you to a Golden Jubilee lecture



*European Moments in the Making of Islam’s*

*“Image Problem”*
by* Finbarr Barry Flood*


*Sudipta Kaviraj *will Chair*         *

Monday, 18 March 2013, 6.30 pm

Multipurpose Hall, India International Centre,

Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi

Please join us for tea at 6 pm





In recent European debates on immigration and assimilation, Islam’s
relationship to the shibboleths of secularism has sometimes been
emblematized by a problematic relation to the image. Although seldom noted,
the articulation of notions of cultural and religious alterity around
incommensurate concepts of the image has a long history in European
representations of Islam. Consideration of that history across the *longue
durée* sheds light upon the current reinvestment of the image as a site for
the construction of difference in debates about Islam, modernity and
European identity.


*Finbarr Barry Flood* is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at
the Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, New York
University. He has published on Islamic architectural history and
historiography, cross-cultural dimensions of Islamic art, image theory,
technologies of representation, and Orientalism. Recent books include *Objects
of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval “Hindu-Muslim”
Encounter,*awarded the 2011 Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Prize of the
Association for Asian
Studies, and *Globalizing Cultures: Art and Mobility in the Eighteenth
Century, *co-edited with Nebahat Avcıoğlu. His current book project is
provisionally entitled *Islam and Image: Polemics, Theology and Modernity*.

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