Visualizing the Muslim Gandhi
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Tim Dobe, Th.D., Sumathi Ramaswamy, Ph.D.
Wednesdays at the Center
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Timothy Dobe and Sumathi Ramaswamy will present, compare and discuss several visual images of M.K. Gandhi, each of which embodies important dimensions of Islamic traditions. They will consider, for example, images of Gandhi by the Indian Sufi writer, Khwaja Hasan Nizami from the 1920s, drawn during Gandhi's rise to fame, and by three iconic Muslim artists of modern India, who to are drawn to painting the Mahatma. This interdisciplinary conversation will draw on material religious studies and the historiography of visual culture.
Contact: Catherine Angst
