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