Islam and heritage in Europe: pasts, presents and future possibilities

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Heritage, Islam, Europe: Entanglements and directions. An introduction -- The heritage of Islam in Europe -- Transcending Europe's borders -- The idea of Europe -- Heritage and 'the idea of Europe' -- Coloniality and heritage -- National approaches to diversity -- Contestations of Islam in Europe -- Museums and Islam in Europe -- The study of museum representations of Islam -- Exhibitionary emphases of Islam -- Bridging cultures in museums -- The chapters in this volume -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Embodied heritage and belonging -- Chapter 1: From postcoloniality to decoloniality, from heritage to perpetuation: The Islamic at the museum -- With the best of intentions: from coloniality to post-coloniality -- Platonic perpetuation -- Perpetuation through rearticulation in Islam -- From preservation towards perpetuation -- Making collections Islamic: matrices of decoloniality -- In perpetuity: living -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Cemetery poetics: The sonic life of cemeteries in Muslim Europe -- Sonic heritage in Muslim Europe: an itinerary -- Listening to a cemetery: polyphonic deadness at Eyüp Sultan, Istanbul -- Cemetery poetics at Berlin S¸ehitlik Cemetery: contestations -- Cemetery poetics at Kars S¸ehitlik Cemetery: (loud) commemoration -- Beyond S¸ehitlik: Alevi cemetery poetics in Berlin -- Speechless at Srebrenica: the limits of cemetery poetics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Germans without footnotes: Islam, belonging and poetry slam -- Belonging and recognition -- Muslim heritage on stage in Berlin -- 'It is always good to see Heimat ' -- Being German and being Muslim -- Making connections -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes.

Islam and Heritage in Europe provides a critical investigation of the role of Islam in Europe's heritage. Focusing on Islam, heritage and Europe, it seeks to productively trouble all of these terms and throw new light on the relationships between them in various urban, national and transnational contexts. Bringing together international scholars from a range of disciplines, this collection examines heritage-making and Islam in the context of current events in Europe, as well as analysing past developments and future possibilities. Presenting work based on ethnographic, historical and archival research, chapters are concerned with questions of diversity, mobility, decolonisation, translocality, restitution and belonging. By looking at diverse trajectories of people and things, this volume encompasses multiple perspectives on the relationship between Islam and heritage in Europe, including the ways in which it has played out and transformed against the backdrop of the 'refugee crisis' and other recent developments, such as debates on decolonising museums or the resurgence of nationalist sentiments. Islam and Heritage in Europe discusses specific articulations of belonging and non-belonging, and the ways in which they create new avenues for re-thinking Islam and heritage in Europe. This ensures that the book will be of interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students engaged in the study of heritage, museums, Islam, Europe, anthropology, archaeology and art history. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (see also http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).