Jamal J. Elias
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Islamic History and Visual Culture at the University of Pennsylvania, author of After Rumi: The Mevlevis and Their World (Harvard UP, 2025).
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Feb 4, 2026 • 27min
Can Art Harmonize Diverse Religions?
Garrick Allen, scholar of manuscripts who traces shared framing across sacred texts; Kutter Callaway, media and theology expert on collaborative art fostering empathy; Jamal Elias, scholar of Islamic visual culture on contested imagery; Oludamini Ogunnaike, philosopher exploring arts in social and metaphysical meaning. They discuss art as a silent theology, paratextual similarities, interfaith collaboration, controversies over images, and art’s role in social cohesion.
