Imagining Antiquity in Islamic Societies

Imagining Antiquity in Islamic SocietiesLong before the Taliban, ISIS and other iconoclasts, Muslims imagined localities of antiquity as places imbued with didactic, historical and moral power. In thirteen articles by leading scholars covering the eighth century to the present, this book explores diverse ways Muslims have valued the material legacies of ancient and pre Islamic societies. 118 b w illus. Free sample: Introduction Imagining Localities of Antiquity in Islamic Societies

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