ABSTRACT
Muslims are linguistically, ethnically and geographically diverse: fewer than 20 percent of Muslims are Arabs, and one fifth of the world's Muslims live in non-Muslim countries. This chapter attempts to categorize contemporary illustrated books and screen productions for Muslim children in both English and Arabic according to their stylistic approaches, the sources they rely on, the narrative decisions they make as a result of interpretations of religious precepts, and the visual paradigms they adhere to. All the digital and traditional media trees seem to tell three main types of stories regardless of the format and language in which they are presented. The "purified" stories have been those most in circulation until today, and the resulting absence of many details that are essential to smooth plot development made them less attractive selections for commercial television productions, and it largely fell to Arab national television to produce animated sira and prophetic stories.
