Devotion in paint: Islamic images of the Holy Prophet

Sameer Rahim is a British literary journalist and novelist, who is Managing Editor (Arts and Books) at Prospect magazine. He previously worked at the London Review of Books and at The Daily Telegraph, and his reviews of both fiction and non-fiction have featured regularly in other publications. Also an essayist, he was a winner of the William Hazlitt Essay Prize 2013 for “The Shadow of the Scroll: Reconstructing Islam’s Origins”.
Rahim’s critical writing includes pieces on V. S. Naipaul, Kazuo Ishiguro, Clive James and Geoffrey Hill.