Are drawing and painting haraam? @ Arab American News
August 8th, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
My piece is in the August 4 issue of Arab American News, on what Sharia law has to say about representational art, specifically art that depicts nudity. In the piece, I talk to artists:
Max Emadi
Asma Ahmed Shikoh
and Mohamed Zakariya
Professors:
Rebecca M. Brown, professor of politics and international relations at University of Wales, Swansea,
Juan E. Campo, associate professor of religious studies at the University of California Santa Barbara,
Ori Soltes, professional lecturer in Georgetown’s theology department,
Mustafa Abu Sway, professor of philosophy and Islamic studies at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem
and Oleg Grabar, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Baker Masad, who directs the Amman, Jordan-based Arab Art Gallery.
And last but certainly not least:
Imam Sayed Moustafa al-Qazwini, founding imam of the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County, Calif.
and Imam Yahya Hendi, Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University.
I will be posting the interviews soon.