The Intertwining of History and Heritage in Islamic Contexts
This chapter argues that Islamic history should be imagined as an ever-expanding web of overlapping and competing discourses about the past. Islam’s transhistorical presence is an illusion that is borne of the historiographical process. Clusters of eviden
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“Heritage” is implicated in the creation and circulation of categories through which Islam is studied and understood. The categories used in the management, identification, and safeguarding efforts of all heritage— authenticity, integrity, endangerment, values, and stewardship—are built on relationships between communities and their history, identity, politics, and beliefs, which are often employed as categories and relationships that are rigorous and normative. In contrast, a critical heritage framework recognizes the diversity of heritage constructs across territories and time and, accordingly, aims to destabilize these categories by considering and revealing the agendas and biases that have nurtured these categories and their underlying relationships, methodological approaches, and research agendas. The series Heritage Studies in the Muslim World invites a breakaway from disciplinary legacies that are involved in the study of “Islamic heritage.” It features broad representation of disciplines and voices that intersect at this subject of study, with scholarship that is often located at the margins of disciplines and domains. In this aim, the series welcomes a broad representation of voices that intersect to address heritage discourses and practices, considering the natural and built environment, material culture, traditions, performances, technologies, discourses, and other political and legal instruments that are associated with heritage. Contributors to this series recognize the Muslim world as a diverse and fluid territory where Muslim and non-Muslim communities engage with Muslim and non-Muslim heritage constructs.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15128
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The Making of Islamic Heritage Muslim Pasts and Heritage Presents
Editor Trinidad Rico Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Heritage Studies in the Muslim World ISBN 978-981-10-4070-2 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-4071-9
ISBN 978-981-10-4071-9 (eBook)
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