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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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Auteur principal: Sachedina, Amal, 1974- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"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"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9781501758621