My blog is directed at people who don’t know much about Islam- particularly those people who grew up in Islamophobic America. I chose this audience because it is an audience which I connect with. I had never met a Muslim person before coming to Harvard. Everything that I knew about Islam was from the television […]
http://www.dragontape.com/#!/5180225637842944 (video embedding isn’t working) I created this “video collage” in response to Professor Asani’s excerpt of “Infidel of Love: Exploring Muslim understandings of Islam”. The excerpt assigned explored common misconceptions of Islam, and addressed these misconceptions by outlining Muslim understandings of Islam. I wanted to create a visual representation of this work. The resulting […]
(click image to enlarge) I created this image in-response to “The Topaki Scroll- Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture”. Throughout the excerpts assigned, Gurlu Necipoglu deconstructs past literature on the topic of geometric ornament in Islamic architecture. While other scholars have emphasized the unity underlying Islamic art and architecture, Necipoglu argues that Islamic art […]
Goodbye, Qasem I have dreamt of my wedding, the sights and the sounds The joy and the love that would be all around How different this day is than the day I desired For my special day is full of doom, pain and ire Instead of music from harps I hear the drumming of war […]
I made the mask featured in these photographs as a response to The Conference of the Birds by Farid Ud-Din Attar. This mask captures the moral of The Conference of the Birds by showing that Simorgh- or God- is within every living creature. The top of the mask is comprised of feathers in order to […]
For my alternative blog post I created this word cloud. This word cloud should be printed on posters and hung up in any classroom teaching Islam or religion in the United States. The poster helps portray a central theme of the course: there is no one way to practice Islam. Many high school […]