the question of images works in minds, particularly when it comes to their presence in the Arab and Muslim worlds. While Christiane Gruber and Sune Haugbolle give up — regrettably — in the introduction of Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East, the necessary exercise to counter this representation of an iconoclastic Muslim world, they do not in any way form part of this rather sterile controversy. One of the strengths of this book is to see prati...