

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: 2026 Mikhail Lecture with Art Historian, Christiane Gruber
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: TOPIC | "Images of the Virgin Mary in Islamic Lands"

SPEAKER | Dr. Christiane Gruber, the Mehmet Ağa-Oğlu Collegiate Professorship in Islamic Art History in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan

Jewish and Christian prophets have been central to Islamic thought and devotion since the emergence of Islam in the 600s. Among them, the Virgin Mary holds a prominent place as the mother of Jesus as well as a prophetess in her own right, to whom an entire chapter in the Qur’an (Surat Maryam) is dedicated. Visual depictions of Mary can be found in Islamic lands within mosaics, metalwares, manuscripts, and paintings, the latter of which accelerated in Iran during the fourteenth century.

Thereafter, and most especially during the seventeenth century in South Asia, the arrival of Jesuit missionaries catalyzed Christian-Muslim religious interactions while European printed images yielded new and highly creative depictions of Mary included in Mughal manuscripts and albums. In these malleable pre-modern Muslim spheres of production and practice, Mary emerges as the quintessential holy female symbol in her positions as mother, matriarch, intercessor, and healer.

Admission &amp; Visitor Parking - Free
Use area #3 next to the Center for the Visual Arts.
This is an in-person event that is also live streamed on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/live/Y-YbORqmDrA

About Our Speaker, Dr. Christiane Gruber

Dr. Gruber holds the Mehmet Ağa-Oğlu Collegiate Professorship in Islamic Art History at the University of Michigan's History of Art Department. Her scholarship covers a range of topics, including Islamic figural representation, devotional paintings of the Prophet Muhammad, and Islamic ascension texts and images. She has published three books and served as editor for multiple collections of scholarly articles on these subjects. 

Additionally, Dr. Gruber conducts research on Islamic book arts, codicology, and paleography. She is the author of the online catalogue documenting Islamic calligraphies at the Library of Congress and the editor of the article collection titled The Islamic Manuscript Tradition. Her expertise also extends to modern and contemporary Islamic visual and material culture, for which she has edited several volumes and published more than a dozen articles.
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- **Event Categories**: art, fine-arts, literary-art, virtual
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 342

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Toledo
- **state**: OH
- **country**: United States
- **location**: The Center for the Visual Arts
- **lat**: 41.657788801596
- **long**: -83.557881008295
- **full address**: The Center for the Visual Arts, 2340 Grove Pl, Toledo, OH 43604, United States

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- **organizer**: UToledo Judith Herb College of Arts, Social Sciences and Education (https://allevents.in/org/utoledo-judith-herb-college-of-arts-social-sciences-and-education/15835231)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** The Center for the Visual Arts, 2340 Grove Pl, Toledo, OH 43604, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** UToledo Judith Herb College of Arts, Social Sciences and Education
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