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Book SynopsisSeen and Unseen explores how visual mediums construct visual cultures that create limited perspectives of issues and groups, specific to this volume, the representation of Islam and Muslims. It deals with fixed and stereotypical visual representations and explores alternative and challenging representations that are reconstructing existing belief systems.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction. Visual Cultures of Islam: The Seen, Unseen and the in Between Sanaz Fotouhi and Esmaeil Zeiny Part 1: Imaging Histories 1 The Arrest of Diponegoro: Visual Orientalism and Its Alternative Syed Farid Alatas 2 Images of the Prophet Muhammad: Brief Thoughts on Some European-Islamic Encounters Christiane Gruber Part 2: Unseen Reality 3 Nightmarish Visions? Shifting Visual Representations of the ‘Islamic’ Terrorist Throughout the ‘War on Terror’ Jared Ahmad 4 Oil and Women: Invisibility as Power in Nawal El-Saadawi’s Love in the Kingdom of Oil Layla Hendow 5 ‘World Hijab Day’: Positioning the Hijabi in Cyberspace Raihanah M. M. Part 3: Interrogating Visual Representations 6 Contemporary Bruneian Cinema in the Context of Sharia Law D. Bruno Starrs 7 Visual Discourses of (Un)veiling: Revisiting Women of Allah Esmaeil Zeiny 8 Visibility and Veiling: Iranian Art on the Global Scene Hoda Afshar 9 From Woman to Tehran: The Shifting Representations of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Book Covers by Iranian Writers in English Sanaz Fotouhi
