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Author Sachedina, Amal, 1974- author.

Title Cultivating the past, living the modern the politics of time in the Sultanate of Oman Amal Sachedina
Published Ithaca [New York] Cornell University Press 2021
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) illustrations, map
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
Summary "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, religious and political authority"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 23, 2021)
Subject Material culture -- Political aspects -- Oman
Material culture -- Social aspects -- Oman
Cultural property -- Oman -- History
HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula
Civilization
Cultural property
Material culture -- Social aspects
Politics and government
SUBJECT Oman -- Civilization -- History
Oman -- Politics and government -- History
Subject Oman
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020050800
ISBN 9781501758638
1501758632
1501758624
9781501758621