Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image

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Introduction I. Moving Images 1. Images of the Prophet Muhammad In and Out of Modernity: The Curious Case of a 2008 Mural in Tehran /Christiane J. Gruber 2. Secular Domesticities, Shiite Modernities: Khomeini's Illustrated Tawzh al-Masail /Pamela Karimi 3. Memory and Ideology: Images of Saladin in Syria and Iraq /Stefan Heidemann 4. You Will (Not) Be Able to Take Your Eyes Off It!: Mass-Mediated Images and Politico-Ethical Reform in the Egyptian Islamic Revival /Patricia Kubala II. Islamist Iconographies 5. The Muslim Crying Boy in Turkey: Aestheticization and Politicization of Suffering in Islamic Imagination /Ozlem Sava 6. The New Happy Child in Islamic Picture Books in Turkey /Umut Azak 7. Sadrabiliyya: The Visual Narrative of Muqtada Al-Sadr's Islamist Politics and Insurgency in Iraq /Ibrahim Al-Marashi 8. The Martyr's Fading Body: Propaganda vs. Beautification in the Tehran Cityscape /Ulrich Marzolph III. Satirical Contestations 9. Pushing Out Islam: Cartoons of the Reform Period in Turkey (1923-1930) /Yasemin Gencer 10. Blasphemy or Critique?: Secularists and Islamists in Turkish Cartoon Images /Pinar Batur and John VanderLippe 11. Naji al-Ali and the Iconography of Arab Secularism /Sune Haugbolle IV. Authenticity and Reality in Trans-National Broadcasting 12. Arab Television Drama Production and the Islamic Public Sphere /Christa Salamandra 13. Saudi-Islamist Rhetorics about Visual Culture /Marwan Kraidy Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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