Understanding Islam at European Museums

Magnus Berg, Klas Grinell (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

75 Seiten

2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-74419-5 (ISBN)

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Exhibitions of Islamic artefacts in European museums have since 1989 been surrounded by a growing rhetoric of cultural tolerance, in response to the dissemination of images of Islam as misogynist, homophobic and violent. This has produced a new public context for exhibitions of Islam and has led to major recent investments in new galleries for Islamic artefacts, often with financial support from the Gulf and Saudi Arabia. This Element addresses contemporary framings of Islam in European museums, focusing on how museums in Germany and the UK with collections of Islamic heritage realise the ICOM (International Council of Museums) definition of museums as institutions in the service of society. The authors find that far too often the knowledge of Islamic cultural heritage is disconnected from contemporary developments in museum transformations, as well as from the geopolitical contexts they are a response to.

1. Introduction; 2. Collecting; 3. Islamic Art; 4. Islam, The West and Something Else; 5. Conclusions.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Critical Heritage Studies
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	119 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	1-108-74419-2 / 1108744192
ISBN-13	978-1-108-74419-5 / 9781108744195
Zustand	Neuware