Heritage in the Muslim World

Heritage in the Muslim World brings together writings by distinguished anthropologists, historians and art historians to take a critical look at the claims of science, culture and civilization in giving significance to places, to understand how they become visible or invisible in terrains of power. This collection brings 'place' into focus to examine, on the one hand, how specific sites and buildings acquire significance in discourses of archaeology, heritage and civilization, and on the other hand, how images of sites and on sites transform the meaning of places as they circulate through films, calendars, posters and postcards to make national, ethnic or religious claims between people and places. This book will interest not only scholars and students of heritage, but will reach those more broadly interested in postcolonial histories, as well those interested in alternative and critical approaches to cultural politics in Muslim societies.