Cultivating the past, living the modern the politics of time in the Sultanate of Oman
"Centered in Muscat and Nizwa, the book analyzes the relations with the past that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari'a Imamate (1913-1958) to a modern nation state from 1970 onwards. Key locales and objects become sites for tracking transformations in forms of history, religio...
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Ithaca [New York]
Cornell University Press
2021
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: heritage discourse and its alterities
- Reform and revolt through the pen and the sword
- Nizwa Fort and the dalla during the Imamate
- Museum effects
- Ethics of history-making
- Nizwa, city of memories
- Nizwa's lasting legacy of slavery
- The al-Lawati as a historical category
- Conclusion: cultivating the past