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The Making of Islamic Heritage

The Making of Islamic Heritage Muslim Pasts and Heritage Presents

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Heritage Studies in the Muslim World

The Making of Islamic Heritage

Muslim Pasts and Heritage Presents

Trinidad Rico

Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

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.   
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).

Publication Date: 11 December 2018
Publisher: Qatar National Research Fund
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 9789811350405
Format: Paperback / softback
Page Count: 131

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