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xxvii, 343 p. : ill. |
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"The contributions were first presented at the April 2009 conference "Rhetoric of the Image: Visual Culture in Political Islam," held in Magleaas, Denmark"--Acknowledgements. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. "Moving" images -- Images of the Prophet Muhammad in and out of modernity : the curious case of a 2008 mural in Tehran / Christiane Gruber -- Secular domesticities, Shiite modernities : Khomeini's illustrated Tawzih al-Masail / Pamela Karimi -- Memory and ideology : images of Saladin in Syria and Iraq / Stefan Heidemann -- "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 -- Part 2. Islamist iconographies -- The Muslim "crying boy" in Turkey : aestheticization and politicization of suffering in Islamic imagination / Ozlem Sava -- The new happy child in Islamic picture books in Turkey / Umut Azak -- Sadrabiliyya : the visual narrative of Muqtada al-Sadr's Islamist politics and insurgency in Iraq / Ibrahim Al-Marashi -- The martyr's fading body : propaganda vs. beautification in the Tehran cityscape / Ulrich Marzolph -- Part 3. Satirical contestations -- Pushing out Islam : cartoons of the reform period in Turkey (1923-1930) / Yasemin Gencer -- Blasphemy or critique? : secularists and Islamists in Turkish cartoon images / John VanderLippe and Pinar Batur -- Naji al-Ali and the iconography of Arab secularism / Sune Haugbolle -- Part 4. Authenticity and reality in trans-national broadcasting -- Arab television drama production and the Islamic public sphere / Christa Salamandra -- Saudi-Islamist rhetorics about visual culture / Marwan Kraidy. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Art and society -- Middle East -- Congresses.
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Visual communication -- Middle East -- Congresses.
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Arts, Middle Eastern -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Popular culture -- Middle East -- Congresses.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gruber, Christiane J., 1976-
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Haugbolle, Sune, 1976-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780253008848 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780253008886 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780253008947 (electronic bk.) |
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