About the Author

Christiane Gruber is professor of Islamic Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her primary field of research include Islamic book arts, figural painting, depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. She is the author of The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images.

Reviews

"Gruber's folio-sized volume is beautifully produced, richly illustrated with clear, crisp reproductions, and well annotated, and makes an outstanding contribution to image science as well as to the value of visual exegesis in inter-religious studies."--Islam and Christian-Muslim Relation