Islam and Heritage in Europe

Islam and Heritage in Europe provides a critical investigation of the role of Islam in Europe's heritage. Focusing on Islam, heritage, and Europe; it seeks to productively trouble all of these terms and to throw new light on the relationships between them in various urban, national and transnational contexts.

Autorentext

Katarzyna Puzon is an anthropologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Sharon Macdonald is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Social Anthropology in the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she founded and directs CARMAH the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage.

Mirjam Shatanawi is Research Fellow at the National Museum of World Cultures and Lecturer in Heritage Theory at the Reinwardt Academy in Amsterdam.

Klappentext

Islam and Heritage in Europe provides a critical investigation of the role of Islam in Europe's heritage. Focusing on Islam, heritage, and Europe; it seeks to productively trouble all of these terms and to throw new light on the relationships between them in various urban, national and transnational contexts.

Inhalt

Foreword; Heritage, Islam, Europe: Entanglements and Directions. An Introduction; Part I. Embodied Heritage and Belonging; 1. From Postcoloniality to Decoloniality, From Heritage to Perpetuation: the Islamic at the Museum; 2. Cemetery Poetics: The Sonic Life of Cemeteries in Muslim Europe; 3. Germans without Footnotes: Islam, Belonging and Poetry Slam in Berlin; 4. The Here and Now and the Hereafter: Engaging with Fragrant Realities in Muslim-minority Russia; Part II. The Nation-State and Identity Formations; 5. Reviving al-Andalus: Commemorating Spain's Islamic Heritage in the Context of Democratic Transition; 6. Museum Islamania in France: Islamic Art as a Political and Social Scene; 7. The Materialities and Legalities of Forgetting: Dispossession and the Making of Turkey's (Post-) Ottoman Heritage; Part III. Categories, Connections and Contemporary Challenges; 8. Museum Narratives of Islam between Art, Archaeology and Ethnology: A Structural Injustice Approach; 9. Connecting the Ancient and the Modern Middle East in Museums and Public Space; 10. Re-framing Islam? Potentials and Challenges of Participatory Initiatives in Museums and Heritage