What is it about?
It is exploring the dominant and sometimes not-so-dominant visual cultures that have informed the way Islam is represented at both local and global levels through the inclusion of multiple realities, media, perspectives, discourses and interpretations.
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Why is it important?
This chapter shows how visual cultures can also lead to the construction of certain repeated images, biases, stereotypes, and definite ways that we can position ourselves in the world against the Other.
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This page is a summary of: Introduction. Visual Cultures of Islam: The Seen, Unseen and the in Between, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004357013_002.
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