The Making of Islamic Heritage
Muslim Pasts and Heritage Presents
Published on 23. June 2017
Book
Hardback
IX, 131 pages
978-981-10-4070-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Offering key insights into critical debates on the construction, management and destruction of heritage in Muslim contexts, this volume considers how Islamic heritages are constructed through texts and practices which award heritage value. It examines how the monolithic representation of Islamic heritage (as a singular construct) can be enriched by the true diversity of Islamic heritages and how endangerment and vulnerability in this type of heritage construct can be re-conceptualized. Assessing these questions through an interdisciplinary lens including heritage studies, anthropology, history, conservation, religious studies and archaeology, this pivot covers global and local examples including heritage case studies from Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Jordan, and Pakistan.
Offering key insights into critical debates on the construction, management and destruction of heritage in Muslim contexts, this volume considers how Islamic heritages are constructed through texts and practices which award heritage value. It examines how the monolithic representation of Islamic heritage (as a singular construct) can be enriched by the true diversity of Islamic heritages and how endangerment and vulnerability in this type of heritage construct can be re-conceptualized. Assessing these questions through an interdisciplinary lens including heritage studies, anthropology, history, conservation, religious studies and archaeology, this pivot covers global and local examples including heritage case studies from Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Jordan, and Pakistan.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
7 s/w Abbildungen
IX, 131 p. 7 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
328 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-10-4070-2 (9789811040702)
DOI
10.1007/978-981-10-4071-9
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
Book
12/2018
Springer
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Person
Trinidad Rico is Assistant Professor and Director of the Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies Program at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. Her research covers critical heritage studies, risk and disaster, Islamic materiality, cosmopolitanism, ethnographic heritage, and the vernacularization of heritage discourses and expertise. She is author of
Constructing Destruction: Heritage Narratives in the Tsunami City
(2016), and co-editor of
Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage
(2015) and Cultural Heritage in the Arabian Peninsula (2014).
Content
The Making of 'Islamic Heritages': An overview of disciplinary interventions.- Islamic Heritage: The Intertwining of History and Heritage in Islamic Contexts.- Muslim Cultures and Pre-Islamic Pasts: Changing Perceptions of 'Heritage'.- Reclaiming Heritage through the Image of Traditional Habitat.- Framing the Primordial: Islamic Heritage and Saudi Arabia.- Images of Piety or Power? Conserving the Umayyad Royal Narrative in Qusayr.- The Buddha Remains: Heritage Transactions in Taxila, Pakistan.