The Image Debate: Critiquing Gruber’s Secular Erasure of Islamic Authority
Islamic Studies, Art History, Religious Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Theology & Philosophy, Islamic Art & Architecture, Visual Culture, Hermeneutics, Epistemology of Religion, Critique of Orientalism Abdushakur Islamic Studies, Art History, Religious Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Theology & Philosophy, Islamic Art & Architecture, Visual Culture, Hermeneutics, Epistemology of Religion, Critique of Orientalism Abdushakur

The Image Debate: Critiquing Gruber’s Secular Erasure of Islamic Authority

This post launches a systematic, point-by-point critique of Christiane Gruber’s introduction to The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World. Drawing from my ongoing series on Academia.edu and my broader project, On the Strange Place of Islam in Islamic Art History, this essay exposes the theological and methodological fractures in Gruber’s argument. What follows is a direct engagement with the 'covert-Orientalist' attempt to redefine Islam through secular historiography.

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