The Making of Islamic Heritage : Muslim Pasts and Heritage Presents. - Rico, Trinidad (Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, 2017)
Intro -- The Making of Islamic Heritage -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 The Making of Islamic Heritages: An Overview of Disciplinary Interventions -- Making Heritages -- Disciplinary Interventions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 The Intertwining of History and Heritage in Islamic Contexts -- Islam's Multiple Pasts -- Outcomes -- Note -- Bibliography -- 3 Muslim Cultures and Pre-Islamic Pasts: Changing Perceptions of "Heritage" -- Egypt in Muslim Imaginations of the Pre-Islamic Past -- Buried Treasure and More Accessible Artifacts -- Narrative Traditions and Textualized Traces of the Ancients -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Reclaiming Heritage Through the Image of Traditional Habitat -- Introduction: The Mirage of "Islamic Housing" -- Probing an Islamic Tradition in Architecture and Habitat -- Housing the "Indigenous" in French North Africa -- Designing for Cultural Continuity: Shushtar Noʼw, Iran -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Framing the Primordial: Islamic Heritage and Saudi Arabia -- Introduction -- Primordial Time -- Museums of Messages -- The Hejaz Railway -- Re-purposing an Ottoman Past -- Utilizing and Refurbishing the Ottoman Past -- Exhibition and Revival of the Ottoman Past -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 Images of Piety or Power? Conserving the Umayyad Royal Narrative in Qusayr ʿAmra -- Introduction -- Conservation at Qusayr ʿAmra: Revealing the Authentic? -- Is the Art of Qusayr ʿAmra "Islamic"? -- What Can Qusayr 'Amra Do for "Islamic Heritage"? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 The Buddha Remains: Heritage Transactions in Taxila, Pakistan -- Searching for the Buddhas -- Representational Art in Heritage Practices of Taxila -- The Artisans of Taxila -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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