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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 / Özlem Savaş -- 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.