Can I read Imagining Antiquity in Islamic Societies (Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East) on EtoBox?

Imagining Antiquity in Islamic Societies (Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East) by Stephennie F Mulder is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Imagining Antiquity in Islamic Societies (Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East) about?

A history of Islamic interest in the material past of the ancient world. The tragic destruction of cultural heritage performed by ISIS in Syria and Iraq is often superficially explained as an attempt to stamp out idolatry or as a fundamentalist desire to revive and enforce a return to a purified monotheism. Analyses like these posit that there is an "Islamic" manner of imagining the past and that the iconoclastic actions of terrorist organizations are one, albeit extreme, manifestation of an ass

Who reads Imagining Antiquity in Islamic Societies (Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East)?

Author

Stephennie F Mulder

Publisher

Intellect, The University of Chicago Press,

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781789385489

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25