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Christiane Gruber is Professor of Islamic Art in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan as well as Founding Director of Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online. Her scholarship explores medieval to contemporary Islamic art, especially figural representation, depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, book arts, architecture, and visual and material cultures. Two recent publications include The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images (Indiana University Press, 2019) and The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World (GINGKO, 2019). Bihter Esener is Lecturer of medieval Mediterranean and Islamic art in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan. She is an art historian of the visual and material cultures of the medieval Islamic world, with a special interest in Armenian, Byzantine, and Persian-Islamic artistic exchange and cultural encounters in medieval Anatolia, the SouthCaucasus, and the Eastern Mediterranean. She is one of the founding members of Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online. Contributors: Dmitry Bondarev, Umberto Bongianino, Michael Chagnon, Farshid Emami, Annabel Teh Gallop, Yasemin Gencer, Lisa Golombek, Ulrich Marzolph, Corinne Mühlemann.