Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld

Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld explores issues of religion, nationalism, ethnicity, and globalization through the life and work of the prominent contemporary Indonesian artist Abdul Djalil Pirous. This work: presents a unique addition to the anthropology of art and religion; demonstrates the impact of Islam, ethnicity, nationalism, and globalization on the work and life of an internationally recognized postcolonial artist; weaves together visual and narrative materials to tell an engrossing story of a cosmopolitan Muslim artist; and, looks at contemporary Islamic art and the way it has been produced in the world’s largest Muslim nation, Indonesia.