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The first monograph on Sufi Poster Art takes the reader into a world of imagination full of emotion and inspiration. Modern poster-prints depicting "The Friends of God" and their shrines are a vivid medium of piety and devotion. They belong to the Sufi tradition of Pakistan, the heartland of Islamic mysticism in the eastern Muslim world, where this "religion of love" is especially distinctive and alive in its popular manifestations.
About the author
Juergen Wasim Frembgen is Chief Curator of the Oriental Department at the Museum of Ethnology in Munich as well as Privatdozent (Private Lecturer) in Islamic Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg. Since 1981 he is teaching anthropology and Islamic Studies at different universities in Germany; in addition he has been a visiting lecturer at the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad (National Institute of Pakistan Studies), the National College
of Arts in Lahore and Ohio State University in Columbus. Since 1981 he annually conducts ethnographic fieldwork in Pakistan. He has published over ninety articles and fifteen books and catalogues, many of which deal with Islam, Sufism, veneration of Muslim saints, material culture, the anthropology of the body,
social outsiders, and popular culture in the Eastern Muslim world between Iran and India, particularly focusing on Pakistan.
Summary
The first monograph on Sufi Poster Art takes the reader into a world of imagination full of emotion and inspiration. Modern poster-prints depicting "The Friends of God" and their shrines are a vivid medium of piety and devotion. They belong to the Sufi tradition of Pakistan, the heartland of Islamic mysticism in the eastern Muslim world, where this "religion of love" is especially distinctive and alive in its popular manifestations.
