Al-Buraq
Sascha Crasnow
Related Terms:
- Isra (night journey – Mecca to Jerusalem)
- Mi‘raj (celestial ascension – Jerusalem to the Heavens)
- Siyer-i Nebi (biography of the Prophet)
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Sascha Crasnow, “Saba Taj’s Interstellar Uber // Negotiations with God: Queer Articulations in Contemporary Islamic Art,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 20 May 2021.
Christiane Gruber, “A Safavid Painting of the Prophet Muhammad’s Mi‘raj,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 28 August 2020.
References:
Arnold, Thomas. “Burāq.” In Painting in Islam: A Study of the Place of Pictorial Art in Muslim Culture, edited by Thomas Arnold, 117–22. New York: Dover Publications, 1965. 
Crasnow, Sascha. “The Diversity of the Middle: Mythology in Intersectional Trans Representation.” Journal of Visual Culture 19, no. 2 (2020): 212–224.
Gruber, Christiane. “al-Burāq.” In Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd edition, edited by Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Everett Rowson, 40–41. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
Gruber, Christiane, and Frederick Stephen Colby, eds. The Prophet’s Ascension: Cross-Cultural Encounters with the Islamic Mi’rāj Tales. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.
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Sascha Crasnow, “Al-Buraq,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 3 September 2021.
Sascha Crasnow (she/her) is Lecturer of Islamic Arts in the Residential College at the University of Michigan. She writes on global contemporary art practices, with a particular focus on SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa), race, socio-politics, gender, and sexuality. Her writing has appeared in publications such as the Journal of Visual Culture and Lateral. Her book project, The Age of Disillusionment: Palestinian Art After the Intifadas, is under review with Duke University Press.