[ecrea] CFP - Cinema Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image

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*CINEMA 9 CFP: ISLAM AND IMAGES*

*edited by
Patrícia Castello Branco (IFILNOVA)
Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad (SOAS University of London)
Sérgio Dias Branco (University of Coimbra/IFILNOVA/CEIS20) *

In recent times, due to significant political, mediatic and social, but 
also aesthetic and artistic factors, we have witnessed an awakening of 
interest in Islamic aesthetics and imagery.

Islamic art is intrinsically connected with religion, ethics, politics, 
and social structures, as Islam is, for Muslims, not only a religion, 
but a way of life. So, tackling the issue of “Islam and Images” is also, 
necessarily, a gesture that includes all these spheres that, in our 
Western secular culture, are often taken as separated fields.

This issue aims at discussing and analysing Islamic art and aesthetics, 
with a special focus on the “modes of sense perception” embodied in 
particular images, taken politically as forms of organization, 
encompassing forms of visibility, ways of doing and making, and ways of 
conceptualizing. In proposing this topic, we are 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 digital, artefacts and technologies; as 
well as the connections between Islamic art and secular art in 
Muslim-majority countries.

Particular themes of interest include (but are not restricted to) the 
following topics:

- philosophical roots of Islamic visual aesthetics. (e.g., Plato, 
Aristoteles, Al Ghazali, Avicenna, Averroes, Ibn Arabi, et al.);

- the philosophy of Islamic artistic visual practices;

- aniconism, abstraction and representation in Islamic art;

- aniconism and the status of photographic and filmic images;

- influences of Islamic aesthetics in Western art (classical and 
contemporary), particularly painting and film;

- verbal/visual divide in Islamic aesthetics and arts;

- haptical dimensions of aesthetic experience in Islamic visual works;

- different regimes of visibility in Islamic art tradition;

- aesthetic experience and transcendence in Islam;

- connections and interdependence between philosophy, theology, art, 
politics and society in Islamic traditions.

Plus:

- specificities of Islamic thought and aesthetics in the Iberian Peninsula;

- connections between Islamic and Christian aesthetics in the Iberian 
Peninsula;

- mysticism in Islam and in Christianity, the Sufi tradition and early 
Christian mystics, particularly in the Iberian Peninsula.

The submission deadline is April 30 (for 500-word abstracts). 
Prospective authors should submit a short CV along with the abstract. A 
selection of authors will be invited to submit full papers according to 
the journal guidelines. Acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee 
publication, since all papers will be subjected to double blind 
peer-review. Submissions are accepted only in English.

Cinema also invites submissions to its special sections: interviews, 
conference reports and book reviews. Please consult the web site of the 
journal (http://cjpmi.ifilnova.pt/about 
<http://cjpmi.ifilnova.pt/about>) for further details.

Feel free to contact the editors for this issue, Patrícia Castello 
Branco ((ps.castellobranco /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(ps.castellobranco /at/ gmail.com)>) or Sérgio Dias Branco 
((sdiasbranco /at/ fl.uc.pt) <mailto:(sdiasbranco /at/ fl.uc.pt)>).

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