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Decolonizing Islamic Art in Africa: New Approaches to Muslim Expressive Cultures

Edited by Ashley Miller

New research explores the dynamic place of Muslim arts and identities, architecture, and creative expression in processes of decolonization across the African continent in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Presenting new methodologies for accentuating African agency in the stories we tell about Islamic art, it is a vital contribution to recent widespread efforts to liberate the art historical canon.

Bringing together work by leading specialists in the fields of African, Islamic, and modern arts and visual cultures, the book directs unprecedented attention to the contributions of African and Muslim artists in articulating modernities in local and international arenas. Interdisciplinary and transregional in scope, it enriches the under-told story of Muslim experiences and expression in Africa, home to nearly half a million Muslims – a third of the global Muslim population.

Part of the Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East series.
www.intellectbooks.com/decolonizing-islamic-art-in-africa