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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Imperial Politics of Architectural Conservation
    sub title: The Case of Waqf in Cyprus
  name:
    name part: Sabri, Reyhan.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 155 p. 14 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book documents the changing role of the Islamic Waqf institution in Cyprus and the conservation of Waqf heritage buildings of Ottoman and Western origins. Previously ignored archives of documents detailing the conservation of Waqf buildings during Ottoman and British rule allow a fine-grained analysis of the colonial introduction of Western approaches to heritage conservation. Colonial rule saw major legislative and administrative changes to the originally autonomous Ottoman Waqf institution, which had already been subject to reforms under the Ottoman regime. Under British rule, Western heritage concepts and modern architectural conservation discourses became the core conservation principles in Cyprus. Earlier centralisation attempts during the Ottoman Tanzimat (1831-1876), and the procedural, technical, and political reconfigurations during the British colonial era in Cyprus (1878-1960), were key factors of the transformation of the Waqf's traditional building upkeep system. These imperial interventions, their orientalist mindset, and the rise of nationalism, finally led to the erosion of Waqf in Cyprus as a non-Western and sustainable form of building conservation. This study reveals how the Western approach, the forms of expertise it privileges, and pragmatic diversions from this practice for political purposes, were useful in neutralizing the legitimacy of local practices, except in cases where opportunistic 'recognition' of their utility played a role in inter-communal, colonial, nationalist, and inter-imperial politics.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Ottoman Waqf's Building Practices: From Decentralisation to Centralisation -- 3. British Colonial Inputs to Waqf's Traditional Building Upkeep Systems (1878-1905) -- 4. Ultimate Centralisation: Political and Professional Control (1905-1935) -- 5. Waqf and the Zenith of Colonial Conservation Politics (1935-1960) -- 6. Discussion and Conclusion.
  note: by Reyhan Sabri.
  subject:
    topic: Islam
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology-Middle East
  subject:
    topic: Middle East-History
  subject:
    topic: Islam
  subject:
    topic: Middle Eastern Culture
  subject:
    topic: History of the Middle East
  classification: BP1-253
  classification: 297
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Heritage Studies in the Muslim World
  identifier: 9783030182328
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18232-8
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    record creation date: 190715
    record change date: 20200215222723.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-18232-8