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

The book introduces the concept of the “gig public” to reimagine the public’s role in societies increasingly shaped by the dynamics of surveillance capitalism and algorithmic governance

and stratification

Salwa Bakr’s writing depicts life at the grassroots of Egypt’s culture

Wittgenstein provides a method of philosophical therapy designed to help one come into agreement with norms embedded in our forms of life and speech

This book productively contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (Art Deco)

and their omni-presence in the media on popular culture

resulting muscle growth

the Alexander Technique teaches people to replace unnecessary muscular and mental effort with consciously coordinated responses

about following one's own curiosity despite the obstacles that might appear along the way

Buried Communities situates Wordsworth as a reformist during a time of social and political crisis

Among the many topics covered are audition scenes

while at sunset the Pyramids glow gold against the Western Desert as they have done for one million seven hundred thousand evenings past