Abstract
Inquiring into early-modern Muslim viewers’ habits, impressions, impulses, and reactions in confrontation with book paintings, this essay challenges established academic paradigms which generalise the Islamic world and over-emphasise hostile Muslim attitudes towards images. Through a thoughtful selection of written sources and visual testimonies, Christiane Gruber opens up a much wider range of emotions which often included affirmative, protective, and iconophile sensibilities with respect to...
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