Table of Contents

Contributors vii

Approaching Muslims in the Movies Kristian Petersen 1

The Cinematic Secularization of Muhammad Ali M. Cooper Harriss 16

"Beware of Them Cameras": Film Representations of Malcolm X Michael Muhammad Knight 30

The Incidental Muslim: The Characters We Overlook Hussein Rashid 45

"Then It Was 1989, the Year the World Changed": Shifting Representations of British Muslims Before 9/11 Claire Chambers 58

Negotiating Queerness in the Ismaili Diaspora in the Films of Ian Iqbal Rashid Alberto Fernandez Carbajal 71

Integration Through Conversion: Discourses of Islam and the musulman laïc in Contemporary French Cinema Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi 85

Laughing at the Other: Muslims in Italian Comedies Michela Ardizzoni 101

Strong Girls and Lost Boys? Growing up Muslim in Nordic Films Sofia Sjö 115

Muslims in Australian Cinema: The Future of Listening Across Difference Mehal Krayem 129

Truth, Lies, and Justice: The Fragmented Picture in Asghar Farhadi's Films Nacim Pak-Shiraz 143

Subverting Stereotypes through a Saudi Film: Wadjda, Gender, and Islam Elliott Bazzano 162

Harems and Hudud: Gendered Space in Farida Benlyazid's Bab al-Sama Maftuh Rebecca Moody 176

School of Satan: al-Azhar's Censure of Egyptian Cinema Coincides with the Vogue of Islamic History Films Mohannad Ghawanmeh 191

"There Goes the Neighborhood": Film Soundstages and the Islamicate Public in Northern Nigeria Abdalla Uba Adamu 206

Sufi Aesthetics and the Making of Islam in Bollywood Syed Haider 219

Comedies of Terror: Strategic Offenses and Genre Tactics Samhita Sunya 234

Cinema of Misrecognition: Islam, Gender, and the Terrorist In Contemporary Indonesian Film Alicia Izharuddin 247

Debating Polygamy in Indonesian Cinema Thomas Barker 263

Philippine Muslim Women on Screen: From Sheltered Daughters to Revolutionaries Vivienne SM. Angeles 277