Visual culture in the Middle East : rhetoric of the image / edited by Christiane Gruber and Sune Haugbolle.

"The contributions were first presented at the April 2009 conference "Rhetoric of the Image: Visual Culture in Political Islam," held in Magleaas, Denmark"--Acknowledgements.

Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία (293-320) και ευρετήριο.

Part I. "Moving" images -- |t Images of the Prophet Muhammad in and out of modernity : the curious case of a 2008 mural in Tehran / |r Christiane Gruber -- |t Secular domesticities, Shiite modernities : Khomeini's illustrated Tawzih al-Masail / |r Pamela Karimi -- |t Memory and ideology : images of Saladin in Syria and Iraq / |r Stefan Heidemann -- |t "You will (not) be able to take your eyes off it!" : mass-mediated images and politico-ethical reform in the Egyptian Islamic revival / |r Patricia Kubala -- |g Part 2. Islamist iconographies -- |t The Muslim "crying boy" in Turkey : aestheticization and politicization of suffering in Islamic imagination / |r Özlem Sava -- |t The new happy child in Islamic picture books in Turkey / |r Umut Azak -- |t Sadrabiliyya : the visual narrative of Muqtada al-Sadr's Islamist politics and insurgency in Iraq / |r Ibrahim Al-Marashi -- |t The martyr's fading body : propaganda vs. beautification in the Tehran cityscape / |r Ulrich Marzolph -- |g Part 3. Satirical contestations -- |t Pushing out Islam : cartoons of the reform period in Turkey (1923-1930) / |r Yasemin Gencer -- |t Blasphemy or critique? : secularists and Islamists in Turkish cartoon images / |r John VanderLippe and Pinar Batur -- |t Naji al-Ali and the iconography of Arab secularism / |r Sune Haugbolle -- |g Part 4. Authenticity and reality in trans-national broadcasting -- |t Arab television drama production and the Islamic public sphere / |r Christa Salamandra -- |t Saudi-Islamist rhetorics about visual culture / |r Marwan Kraidy.