20/05/2024 08:30 - 10:45

HALL: FATESI - CUSMANO

Proponent: Hentschel Y.

Chair: Amir O.

Speaker: Amir O., Hentschel Y., Keskin F.M., Kol I.

The panel seeks to shift the focus of Islamic studies to the field of visual culture by asking questions such as: How did premodern Muslims experience and conceptualize seeing and being seen? Which faculties of perception did they consider as accessible, and how did they employ them? How did early and classical Muslims apply such conceptions of vision to exegetical, legal, oneirological, mystic, and other cultures of visuality? Did they envision specific - sanctioned and condemned - modes of Islamic gaze? What was the epistemic and authoritative value of sight and vision in diverse Islamic discourses?
Exploring such questions from a multidisciplinary perspective, we argue, will progress our understanding of the emergence of distinct Islamic culture(s) out of the visual cultures of Late Antiquity, and its further developments over the medieval periods.
The panel will include the following four lectures, and invites scholars working on related topics to offer complementing presentations:
Yunus Hentschel: Seeing the Practice of Medina. Late Antique Visuality and Islamic Law in Malik b. Anas' (d. 795) al-Muwa??a?
Or Amir: The Dispute regarding the Authoritative Value of Dream Visions in Islamic Juridical Discourse.
Inbal Kol: The relationship between vision comprehension and Early Islamic architecture.
Lev Arie Kapitaikin: Cosmos' Architecture and its Visuality in the Koran and Early Islamic Traditions.