Islam and Heritage in Europe Pasts, Presents and Future Possibilities

Heritage, Islam, Europe: Entanglements and Directions. An Introduction

Mirjam Shatanawi, Sharon Macdonald and Katarzyna Puzon

1. From Postcoloniality to Decoloniality, From Heritage to Perpetuation: the Islamic at the Museum

Wendy Shaw

2. Cemetery Poetics: The Sonic Life of Cemeteries in Muslim Europe

Peter McMurray

3. Germans without Footnotes: Islam, Belonging and Poetry Slam

Katarzyna Puzon

4. The Here and Now and the Hereafter: Engaging with Fragrant Realities in Muslim-minority Russia

Jesko Schmoller

Part II. The Nation-State and Identity Formations

5. Reviving al-Andalus: Commemorating Spain’s Islamic Heritage in the Context of Democratic Transition

Avi Astor

6. Museum Islamania in France: Islamic Art as a Political and Social
   Scene

Diletta Guidi

7. The Materialities and Legalities of Forgetting: Dispossession and the Making of Turkey’s (Post-) Ottoman Heritage

Banu Karaca

Part III. Categories, Connections and Contemporary Challenges

8. Museum Narratives of Islam between Art, Archaeology and Ethnology: A Structural Injustice Approach

Mirjam Shatanawi

9. Connecting the Ancient and the Modern Middle East in Museums and Public Space

Mirjam Brusius

10. Re-framing Islam? Potentials and Challenges of Participatory Initiatives in Museums and Heritage

Biography

Katarzyna Puzon is an anthropologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Sharon Macdonald is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Social Anthropology in the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she founded and directs CARMAH – the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage.

Mirjam Shatanawi is Research Fellow at the National Museum of World Cultures and Lecturer in Heritage Theory at the Reinwardt Academy in Amsterdam.

"Evocative, lucid writing frames and enhances the powerfully localizing and sense-oriented logic that organizes this collection. Invoking smell, sound, and sight to re-frame Islam's presence in Europe, its authors dismantle preconceived assumptions about Islamic culture and heritage, thereby moving us away from the administrative obsessions of colonial academia, the hostility of dominant and state-supported religious institutions, and the self-congratulation of a narrow European humanism." – Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University.

"This is a highly stimulating collection of essays [...] that moves on from generalities and narrow definitions and from the assumptions and well-funded pieties of the recent past. Fresh research and practice give it a welcome edge. The scope of this book is impressive- not only geographical but also conceptual. It's also user-focused, which is surprisingly rare in this field." – John Reeve, Tutor at the Institute of Education and former Head of Education at the British Museum.

"A tour de force, this collection takes readers away from the well-trodden path of positivist art historical and archaeological analysis of Islamic heritage, offering instead a compelling, in situ investigation of the contemporary period, and a thorough guide to the most exciting works-in-progress in the field today." -- Virginie Rey, Deakin University, International Journal of Heritage Studies.