Islamic Art

Can Islam and the Museum Coexist?

The recontextualisation of figural representations within the museum setting raises interesting questions regarding permissibility

Rosalind Noor
11 min readJul 7, 2023

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Photo by Jonas Smith on Unsplash

Whilst the Muslim attitude towards the visual arts is overall aniconic, there exists a wide variation in opinion regarding the secular arts…

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Rosalind Noor

Doctor, Calligraphy and illumination apprentice. GradDip Classical Arabic, GradCert Asian Art. Currently studying: MA Islamic Studies