ANR PROPHET: Between God and Man: Representations of the Prophet in Literature, Arts, and Media

This second workshop of the ANR/DFG Project "The Presence of the Prophet: Muhammad in the Mirror of His Community in Early Modern and Modern Islam", will examine the different modes of literary, artistic and media-related representations of the Prophet Muhammad and their continuity and transformation since the later middle ages and early modernity, up to recent times. It will complement the analytical perspective drawn from the prophetic representations created within Islamic knowledge, the subject of the first workshop. Its major question of research, which focuses on the tension between the divine and human realms connected in the person and message of the Prophet, and their mediation in different forms of representation, will be extended to the literary and artistic fields.