Islamic Art and the Museum provides a historical and conceptual
analysis of Islamic art and documents the successes and failings of its
presentation in museums worldwide. The contributors challenge existing
notions on the research, methodology, and analysis of Islamic art and
investigate the extent to which socio-historical and anthropological
approaches result in new analytical perspectives. They also examine the
difficulties that need to be overcome when presenting Islamic art to
avoid reducing the objects merely to the visual and aesthetic.
Museums covered in detail include Brooklyn Museum's Arts of the Islamic
World Galleries and the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Ontario.
Edited by Benoît Junod, Georges Khalil, Stefan Weber, and
Gerhard Wolf.