Cinema 9 Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image Revista De Filosofia E Da Imagem Em Movimento
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CINEMA 9 JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE MOVING IMAGE REVISTA DE FILOSOFIA E DA IMAGEM EM MOVIMENTO ISLAM AND IMAGES edited by O ISLÃO E AS IMAGENS editado por Patrícia Castello Branco Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad Sérgio Dias Branco CINEMA 9 !i EDITORS Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco (IFILNOVA) Sérgio Dias Branco (University of Coimbra/IFILNOVA/CEIS20) Susana Viegas (IFILNOVA/University of Dundee) EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD D. N. Rodowick (University of Chicago) Francesco Casetti (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart/Yale University) Georges Didi-Huberman (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) Ismail Norberto Xavier (University of São Paulo) João Mário Grilo (Nova University of Lisbon/IFILNOVA) Laura U. Marks (Simon Fraser University) Murray Smith (University of Kent) Noël Carroll (City University of New York) Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University) Raymond Bellour (New Sorbonne University - Paris 3/CNRS) Stephen Mulhall (University of Oxford) Thomas E. Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College) INTERVIEWS EDITOR Susana Nascimento Duarte (School of Arts and Design at Caldas da Rainha/IFILNOVA) BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR Maria Irene Aparício (Nova University of Lisbon/IFILNOVA) CONFERENCE REPORTS EDITOR William Brown (University of Roehampton) ISSN 1647-8991 CATALOGS Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Emerging Sources Citation Index, Clarivate Analytics (ESCI) Web of Science™ European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS) Open Access Library (OALib) The Philosopher’s Index Regional Cooperative Online Information System for Scholarly Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal (Latindex): 23308 PUBLICATION IFILNOVA - Nova Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Social and Human Sciences Nova University of Lisbon Edifício ID, 4.º Piso Av. de Berna 26 1069-061 Lisboa Portugal www.ifilnova.pt WEBSITE www.cjpmi.ifl.pt CINEMA: JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE MOVING IMAGE 9, “Islam and Images” Editors: Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco, Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad (SOAS University of London, guest-editor), Sérgio Dias Branco Peer review: Behzad Dowran (Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology), Jakob Hans Josef Schneider (Federal University of Uberlândia), Luis Deltell Escolar (Complutense University of Ma- drid), Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco, Rafael Ramón Guerrero (Complutense University of Madrid), Ricardo da Costa (Federal University of Espírito Santo), Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad, Sajjad H. Rizvi (University of Exeter), Sérgio Dias Branco, Susana Viegas Cover: Rhiannon Fraser’s concept art for Under the Shadow (2016) Publication date: Dec. 2017 CINEMA 9 !ii EDITORES Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco (IFILNOVA) Sérgio Dias Branco (Universidade de Coimbra/IFILNOVA/CEIS20) Susana Viegas (IFILNOVA/Universidade de Deakin) CONSELHO EDITORIAL CONSULTIVO D. N. Rodowick (Universidade de Chicago) Francesco Casetti (Universidade Católica do Sagrado Coração/Universidade Yale) Georges Didi-Huberman (Escola de Estudos Avançados em Ciências Sociais) Ismail Norberto Xavier (Universidade de São Paulo) João Mário Grilo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa/IFILNOVA) Laura U. Marks (Universidade Simon Fraser) Murray Smith (Universidade de Kent) Noël Carroll (Universidade da Cidade de Nova Iorque) Patricia MacCormack (Universidade Anglia Ruskin) Raymond Bellour (Universidade Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3/CNRS) Stephen Mulhall (Universidade de Oxford) Thomas E. Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College) EDITORA DAS ENTREVISTAS Susana Nascimento Duarte (Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha/IFILNOVA) EDITORA DAS RECENSÕES DE LIVROS Maria Irene Aparício (Universidade Nova de Lisboa/IFILNOVA) EDITOR DOS RELATÓRIOS DE CONFERÊNCIA William Brown (Universidade de Roehampton) ISSN 1647-8991 CATÁLOGOS Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Emerging Sources Citation Index, Clarivate Analytics (ESCI) Web of Science™ European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS) Open Access Library (OALib) The Philosopher’s Index Sistema Regional de Informação em Linha para Revistas Científicas da América Latina, Caribe, Espanha e Portugal (Latindex): 23308 PUBLICAÇÃO IFILNOVA - Instituto de Filosofia da Nova Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Edifício ID, 4.º Piso Av. de Berna 26 1069-061 Lisboa Portugal www.ifilnova.pt SÍTIO ELECTRÓNICO www.cjpmi.ifl.pt CINEMA: REVISTA DE FILOSOFIA E DA IMAGEM EM MOVIMENTO 9, “Islão e Imagens” Editores: Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco, Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad (SOAS Universidade de Londres, editor convidado), Sérgio Dias Branco Revisão por pares: Behzad Dowran (Instituto Iraniano de Investigação para a Ciência e Tecnologia da Informa- ção), Jakob Hans Josef Schneider (Universidade Federal de Uberlândia), Luis Deltell Escolar (Universidade Complutense de Madrid), Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco, Rafael Ramón Guerrero (Universidade Com- plutense de Madrid), Ricardo da Costa (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo), Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad, Sajjad H. Rizvi (Universidade de Exeter), Sérgio Dias Branco, Susana Viegas Capa: arte conceitual de Rhiannon Fraser para Under the Shadow (2016) Data de publicação: Dez. 2017 CINEMA 9 iii! CONTENTS | ÍNDICE Editorial: (Re)Thinking Islamic Imagery 1-3 Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco (IFILNOVA) Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad (SOAS University of London) Sérgio Dias Branco (University of Coimbra/IFILNOVA/CEIS20) Abstracts 4-8 ARTICLES | ARTIGOS The Role of Images in al-Fārābī’s Political Thought 10-26 Sarah Virgi (SOAS University of London) An Unexpected Imagery: The Heart’s Vision and Other Synesthetic Functions of the Dhikr into the Islamic Tradition 27-39 Dario Tomasello (University of Messina) Calligraphic Animation as Visual Music: A Genealogy of Islamic Synchronization of Sight and Sound 40-54 M. Javad Khajavi (Volda University College) Seeing the Unseen: The Invisible Worlds of Jafar Panahi’s Cinema 55-71 Mani Saravanan (Nanyang Technological University) The Foil and the Quicksand: The Image of the “Veil” and the Failure of Abjection in Iranian Diasporic Horror 72-87 Shrabani Basu (Adamas University) CINEMA 9 iv! Post-Cinematic (Mis-)Representation of Islam 88-106 Taida Kusturica (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) INTERVIEWS | ENTREVISTAS Hanan al Cinema: An Interview with Laura U. Marks 108-114 by Stefanie Baumann (IFILNOVA) and Susana Nascimento Duarte (School of Arts and Design at Caldas da Rainha/IFILNOVA) BOOK REVIEWS | RECENSÕES DE LIVROS Psychoanalytic Film Theory and “The Rules of the Game” 116-120 Anthony J. Ballas (University of Colorado Denver) The Philosophy of Documentary Film: Image, Sound, Fiction, Truth 121-126 Stefanie Baumann (IFILNOVA) Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East 127-132 AnaMary Bilbao (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Doing Time: Temporality, Hermeneutics, and Contemporary Cinema 133-137 Feroz Hassan (University of Michigan) Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image 138-141 Susana Mouzinho (IFILNOVA) The Body and The Screen: Female Subjectivities in Contemporary Women’s Cinema 142-148 Zorianna Zurba Deleuze, Japanese Cinema, and the Atom Bomb: The Spectre of Impossibility 149-151 Wayne E. Arnold (The University of Kitakyushu) CINEMA 9 !v The Philosophy of Spike Lee 152-155 Aspen Taylor Johnson (Metropolitan State University of Denver) CINEMA 9 !1 EDITORIAL: (RE)THINKING ISLAMIC IMAGERY Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco (IFILNOVA) Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad (SOAS University of London) Sérgio Dias Branco (University of Coimbra/IFILNOVA/CEIS20) This issue of Cinema is dedicated to the topic of Islam and images. In proposing this topic we were particularly interested in discussing the philosophical understandings of Islamic imagery production, their roots in the history of philosophy, the Islamic tradition of aniconism and anti-ocularcentrism, its influences on styles and movements in the history of art (namely abstract imagery), their development in contemporary societies dominated by new technologies of the moving image, the relationships between the classical and the contemporary, the manual and the digital, artefacts and technologies. In releasing an issue on this theme we aimed at offering an open debate to the academic community and, mostly, we aimed at trying to understand what kind of aesthetic and political bias could be found in particular images originating from Muslim contexts and diasporas. At the same time, we were making an effort to explore how such images encompass forms of visibility, ways of doing and making, and ways of conceptualizing the world that can enrich our contemporary debate on aesthetics and politics. Can a better understanding of Muslim traditions of visual art, old and new, that rely on astonishing traditions of thought, making and experiencing, function as a fruitful contribution within our global contemporary art and politics? We certainly believed it did. The selection of essays that compose this issue reflects our aims and are a direct response to our initial intentions, developing the topic in several directions. The first essay, entitled “The Role of Images in al-Fārābī’s Political Thought” by Sara Virgi, directly responds to some of our most important aims and intentions, addressing the concept of image in Abū Nasr al-Fārābī’s philosophical thought. In her essay Virgi carefully and consistently considers how for al-Fārābī’s images are taken as a decisive instrument for the legislator and religious leader to guide people towards “political happiness,” or the “achievement