Decolonizing Islamic Art in Africa: New Approaches to Muslim Expressive Cultures

Author:   Ashley Miller
Publisher:   Intellect
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9781835950005


Pages:   302
Publication Date:   15 November 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Ashley Miller
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Weight:   0.855kg
ISBN:  

9781835950005


ISBN 10:   1835950000
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   15 November 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements  Introduction: Un-Disciplining African Muslim Expressive Cultures Ashley Miller Part I – BEYOND BORDERS: African (and) Muslim Objects as ‘Relational Loci’ 1. Dispersal, Decolonization, and Dominance: African Muslim Objects from the Swahili Sultanate of Witu (1858–1923) Zulfikar Hirji 2. ‘A Land that Fulfils Dreams’: Rethinking Zanzibar’s Stone Town Beyond a Colonial Imaginary Michelle Apotsos Part II – DISOBEDIENT MEDIA: Reclaiming African Muslim Expressive Cultures 3. ‘Disobedient’ Perspectives on African Muslim Arts Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts 4. Entanglements of Belonging: Regional and Global Bonds in an Urban Muslim Masquerade Lisa Homann 5. Tattooing as Subversive Archive: Safaa Mazirh’s Reclamation of Tattoos in Postcolonial Morocco Cynthia Becker Part III – MOBILIZING HERITAGE: Painting Postcolonial Identities 6. Calligraphy in Mauritania: Creating a Lost Identity Mark Dike DeLancey 7. Surrealist Possessions: Wifredo Lam, Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar, and Ibrahim El-Salahi Alex Dika Seggerman 8. Cybernetics and Postcolonial Utopias Holiday Powers Part IV – UNDISCIPLINED CONSTRUCTIONS: Relocating ‘Islamic’ Architecture in Africa 9. Between Art and Architecture, Modernism and Makhzen Emma Chubb 10. Kader Attia’s Alternative History of the Grands Ensembles, from France to Algeria and Back Jacobé Huet Index

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Ashley Miller is Assistant Curator of African Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, USA. She specializes in the visual and material cultures of twentieth-century Morocco, with a broader expertise in issues of heritage and collective memory, the history of museums in Africa, and the entanglement of modern art production with problems of identity and representation in colonial and postcolonial Africa.

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