What Is ''Islamic'' Art? - Between Religion and Perception

About the author

Wendy M. K. Shaw is Professor of the Art History of Islamic Cultures at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her work focuses on the impact of coloniality on museums, archaeology, preservation, and historical, modern, and contemporary art, with emphasis on the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey, regions of Islamic hegemony, Sufism, and transregional art historiography. She is the author of Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire (2003), and Ottoman Painting: Reflections of Western Art from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic (2011).

Product details

• Authors: Wendy M K Shaw, Wendy M. K. Shaw, Wendy M. K. (Freie Universitat Berlin) Shaw
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781108465212
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46521-2
• No. of pages: 402
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Middle East / General, Middle East, Islamic Studies, History of Art, Middle Eastern history, Islamic countries, Oriental art, Islamic styles