The Making of Islamic Heritage

Trinidad Rico

ISBN 10: 9811040702 / ISBN 13: 9789811040702

Published by Springer Verlag, Singapore, SG, 2017

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Making of Islamic Heritage
• Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore, SG
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811040702
• ISBN 13: 9789811040702
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st ed. 2017.
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.   

About the Author

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).