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´¡²ú²õ³Ù°ù²¹³¦³Ù:ÌýWhat is it that makes “Islamic” Art “Islamic”? In this brief essay, the author explores what links art spanning 14 centuries, several continents, varying political regimes, internecine differences and cultural and ethnic boundaries.
Author
Dr Amyn Sajoo
Amyn B. Sajoo is aÌýat Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies in Vancouver, Canada. A specialist in international human rights, civil society and public ethics, Dr Sajoo was educated at King’s College London and McGill University, Montreal. He has taught at the University of British Columbia, McGill, Simon Fraser University and The Institute of Ismaili Studies, and was a 2005 Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University.
Dr Sajoo earlier served as a human rights advisor with the Canadian department of Justice in Ottawa. He also served as a Canada-ASEAN Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, where his fieldwork in Indonesia and Malaysia culminated in the monographÌýPluralism in Old Societies and New StatesÌý(1994). He subsequently led a comparative civil society seminar project at the ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡, and was editor of the ensuing volume,ÌýCivil Society in the Muslim World: Contemporary PerspectivesÌý(2002).
As the chief editor of the ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡â€™ÌýMuslim Heritage Series, Dr Sajoo launchedÌýA Companion to the Muslim WorldÌýin 2009, which was followed byÌýA Companion to Muslim EthicsÌýin 2010 andÌýA Companion to Muslim CulturesÌýin 2011. His work on plural modernities resulted in the edited volumeÌýMuslim Modernities: Expressions of the Civil ImaginationÌýin 2008.ÌýDr Sajoo is the author ofÌýMuslim Ethics: Emerging VistasÌý(2004), and has contributed extensively to scholarly journals and anthologies, as well as to the newsmedia on both sides of the Atlantic – including theÌýGuardian, theÌýGlobe & Mail, theÌýTimes Higher Education Supplement, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
The latest volume in the Muslim Heritage Series, published in 2018 isÌýThe Shari‘a: History, Ethics and Law
