Picturing Islam: Art and ethics in a Muslim lifeworld comes as the result of a 25-year friendship between Kenneth George and the Indonesian artist, Abdul Djalil Pirous. This relationship permeates each chapter, where a friendly conversation between the two, usually centred on Pirous's artwork, leads the author into the main topics of the chapter. A key concept in George's exposition of the ebbs and flows of Pirous's art is the idea of a 'lifeworld', his 'shorthand for the on-going circumstances in which we find ourselves, culturally, politically, historically, and experientially. Each of us is thrown, with others, into a lifeworld through which we must find our way, refashioning its horizons as imaginatively and as pragmatically as we can' (p. 4).
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