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Japanese Islamicate Art as Interpretive Imagination: An Introduction

NAOKI YAMAMOTO, The Way of Futuwwa AUG 6 This is the introduction to a lecture I will be giving in Istanbul next week. — “What Do You See?” When I was training in the Japanese tea ceremony, my tea master once pointed to a hanging scroll in the tea room and asked me, “What do you feel when you look…

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The Futuwwa Ninja: “Islamicate Fantasy” as an Imaginative Practice

By: Naoki Yamamoto | Date: January 17, 2026 | Substack.com This is an excerpt from a lecture that will be given in Germany next week. This project explores the significance of imagining fictional stories and characters rooted in Islamic ethics, Islamic cultural memory, and Japanese cultural worlds. My concern here is not fiction as entertainment alone, but fiction as an…

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