Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern

Author/Contributor(s):	Sachedina, Amal
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	09/15/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"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"--