Muslim devotional posters

Norwegian version

Welcome to the homepage of the documentation- and research project "Muslim devotional posters" at Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion (AHKR), University of Bergen.

The project focuses on massproduced religious popular pictures in a Muslim context. The material consists of posters and smaller prints with religious motifs such as prophets, Shia Imams, saints, sacred places, historico-mythical narratives, pious people in devout worship, pictures and Quran or Hadith texts in combination, calligrammes and calligraphies.

Site map

• Liten innføring (Brief introduction, Norwegian language only)
• Muslim devotional pictures, some examples
• Devotion in pictures: Muslim popular iconography, Exhibition in Bryggens Museum
• Islams tre helligsteder: Et fargetrykk fra Egypt (Norwegian language only)
• Ingvild Flaskerud's project (Norwegian language only)
• NEW: "Islam på Nationalmuseet" is an educational web site developed by The National Museum is Denmark in Copenhagen. Some of the images come from the collection at AHKR
• Exhibition of Muslim devotional pictures, The Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities, Oslo, Summer 2008, closed 13th of August
• "Network for the Study of Muslim Visual Expressions", Workshop, September 4-7, 2008
• Some useful links