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The Making of Islamic Heritage

Muslim Pasts and Heritage Presents

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Offers a multidisciplinary approach to critical debates on Islamic Heritage
  • Assesses critical debates on the construction, management and destruction of heritage in Muslim contexts
  • Considers heritage case studies from Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Jordan, and Pakistan

Part of the book series: Heritage Studies in the Muslim World (HSMW)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Reclaiming Heritage Through the Image of Traditional Habitat

    • Ali Mozaffari, Nigel Westbrook
    Pages 47-65Open Access
  3. Framing the Primordial: Islamic Heritage and Saudi Arabia

    • Ömer Can Aksoy
    Pages 67-89Open Access
  4. The Buddha Remains: Heritage Transactions in Taxila, Pakistan

    • Hassan Asif, Trinidad Rico
    Pages 109-123Open Access
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 125-131

About this book

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.   

Editors and Affiliations

  • Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

    Trinidad Rico

About the editor

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).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Making of Islamic Heritage

  • Book Subtitle: Muslim Pasts and Heritage Presents

  • Editors: Trinidad Rico

  • Series Title: Heritage Studies in the Muslim World

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4071-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4070-2Published: 23 June 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5040-5Published: 11 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4071-9Published: 13 June 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2662-7906

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-7914

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 131

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cultural Heritage, Islam, Religion and Society, Cultural Anthropology

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