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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Gruber, Christiane J., 1976-; Haugbolle, Sune, 1976-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xxvii, 343 p. :; ill.
• Notes: "The contributions were first presented at the April 2009 conference "Rhetoric of the Image: Visual Culture in Political Islam," held in Magleaas, Denmark"--Acknowledgements.
• Other title: Images of the Prophet Muhammad in and out of modernity : the curious case of a 2008 mural in Tehran /; Secular domesticities, Shiite modernities : Khomeini's illustrated Tawzih al-Masail /; Memory and ideology : images of Saladin in Syria and Iraq /; "You will (not) be able to take your eyes off it!" : mass-mediated images and politico-ethical reform in the Egyptian Islamic revival /; The Muslim "crying boy" in Turkey : aestheticization and politicization of suffering in Islamic imagination /; The new happy child in Islamic picture books in Turkey /; Sadrabiliyya : the visual narrative of Muqtada al-Sadr's Islamist politics and insurgency in Iraq /; The martyr's fading body : propaganda vs. beautification in the Tehran cityscape /; Pushing out Islam : cartoons of the reform period in Turkey (1923-1930) /; Blasphemy or critique? : secularists and Islamists in Turkish cartoon images /; Naji al-Ali and the iconography of Arab secularism /; Arab television drama production and the Islamic public sphere /; Saudi-Islamist rhetorics about visual culture /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780253008848 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780253008886 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780253008947 (electronic bk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Christiane Gruber and Sune Haugbolle.