Bones of Contention Muslim Shrines in Palestine /

• Main Author: Petersen, Andrew (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Heritage Studies in the Muslim World,
• Subjects: Architecture.; Islam-Doctrines.; Archaeology.; Architectural History and Theory.; Islamic Theology.

This pivot sets Muslim shrines within the wider context of Heritage Studies in the Muslim world and considers their role in the articulation of sacred landscapes, their function as sites of cultural memory and their links to different religious traditions. Reviewing the historiography of Muslim shri...

Table of Contents:

• PART I
• Introduction; definitions, history and context
• Arabic and Muslim Historiography
• Muslim Shrines in European Descriptions of Palestine
• PART II
• Shrines Sponsored by Sultans
• Major Sufi Shrines
• Shaykh's Tombs
• Shi'a, Druze and Bahai Shrines
• PART III
• Destruction, neglect and appropriation; The demise of Muslim Shrines
• Heritage and Conservation
• Conclusions.