{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Amal Sachedina","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501758614.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758614.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This concluding chapter explains how, even though the forms heritage assumes in Oman may seem familiar, inasmuch as they are global, their significance is best understood within the parameters of a regional history. People's mundane engagements with the traces of the material past are subjected to hegemonic visual and discursive practices, even as their understandings turn fluid as they are subjected to changes in the region. Like the rest of the Arab-Persian Gulf region, the explanatory basis of pervasive heritage in Oman tends to reference the rise of a new form of polity — the nation-state, the need to create a new mode of collective consciousness by sociopolitical elites and to mitigate the uncertain effects of rapid modernization brought about by sudden oil wealth. Heritage, in such a scenario, is deemed no more than a fabricated form of history that papers over reality, one moreover that cannot be relied on for any kind of essential truth. The familiar form these public heritage institutions assume — from museums to textbooks — is taken as the work and design of Western professionals and thus purged of any genuine sense of the past.","PeriodicalId":186222,"journal":{"name":"Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114791902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethics of History Making","authors":"Amal Sachedina","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501758614.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758614.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the underlying reasoning behind the sheer ubiquity of heritage imagery and the social reality it creates. It interrogates the ways in which Omani state officials attempt to naturalize the productive possibilities of a living connection with heritage imagery through their mode of rationalizing the connection between past, present, and future, and how this temporal logic becomes the ground upon which ethical values, dispositions, and practices forge the basis of the idealized relationship between the Omani citizen and heritage imagery. Thanks to state initiatives, the pragmatics of daily activities among the citizenry are now enshrined as heritage, creating a sense of self-consciously repeating the habits and traditions of forbears. These activities slice through modern distinctions of public and private, state and society, acquiring a new significance as the basis for forging the “Omani personality.” These include daily household chores, such as serving coffee, sprinkling rose water over guests on leave taking, weekly burning of incense throughout the home, wearing the disdasha to the office, or making traditional bread for breakfast.","PeriodicalId":186222,"journal":{"name":"Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126843245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nizwa Fort and the Dalla During the Imamate","authors":"Amal Sachedina","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501758614.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758614.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on two forms of material heritage once integral to the governance of the twentieth-century Ibadi Imamate: Nizwa Fort and the dalla. These modes of governance were presided over by the hulking contours of the fort, in its role as sharīʿa adjudicator, and circulated by the form and function of the dalla as part of daily social interactions in the sabla. The past became a knowledge that was read, recited, and debated while being sedimented in an embodied disposition. Through daily readings and discussion, local affairs and conflicts were addressed by honing a relationship to the past that cultivated and amended disposition, thought, and action on the basis of exempla. It was a past that was primarily moral, oriented toward God, and grounded in tribal mores and Ibadi doctrine and practice. Both material forms facilitated a history that held that life's interactions and relationships could be sanctioned and critiqued based on past forms that also held templates for future action. This conception of history formed the foundation of religiosity, law, governance, and ethics.","PeriodicalId":186222,"journal":{"name":"Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131626801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion: Cultivating the Past","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501758621-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501758621-011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":186222,"journal":{"name":"Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114496539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The al-Lawati as a Historical Category","authors":"Amal Sachedina","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501758614.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758614.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the sur al-Lawati, the fortified enclave of the al-Lawati, a non-Arab, non-Ibadi mercantile community historically oriented toward the British Raj, staunchly allied to the pre-1970 Muscat sultanate, and grounded in a Shiʿi geography. This community has been incorporated into Oman's national historical narration and iconic imagery. Their differences to the Arab and Ibadi population are managed through the state's governing logics of a common history and tribalization, even while these institutional mechanisms apportion the space in which one emerges as an Omani citizen. This dense assemblage of key elements both limits and opens possibilities for political engagement and participation in state planning and policy making. These terms of reference formulate the space in which the “differences” that sum up the al-Lawati are managed within the community and with outsiders, defining the terms of their political and religious belonging and the referential basis by which they participate in public life (outside the sur) versus private life (inside the sur).","PeriodicalId":186222,"journal":{"name":"Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116413769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Glossary","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501758621-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501758621-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":186222,"journal":{"name":"Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121107962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501758621-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501758621-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":186222,"journal":{"name":"Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern","volume":"8 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124295993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3. Museum Effects","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501758621-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501758621-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":186222,"journal":{"name":"Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern","volume":"609 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123335496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reform and Revolt through the Pen and the Sword","authors":"Amal Sachedina","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501758614.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758614.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses how the Ibadi Imamate's establishment in 1913 was considered to be a culmination of three processes: (1) the British regulation and blockade of trade in enslaved people and arms into the region, (2) the active presence of British troops and naval squadrons, and (3) increasingly strident protests against what was widely considered the tyrannical regime of the British-supported sultan. The chapter looks at these policies, exploring the ways in which they were understood and acted upon according to two distinctive concepts of historical time. The first was the British understanding of progressive historicity that aimed to extend “civilization” across the region. This understanding entailed total transformation of the land and social order to leave behind the “tribal anarchy” and “xenophobic religiosity” of the past. The second was the Ibadi Imamate's, in which tradition, in accordance with Ibadi sharīʿa, was not the enemy of change but the ground on which change could occur. Historical logic was incorporated into thought and action by both sides to condition a moral relationship that brought about a confrontation of cultures with different modes of conceptualizing the relationship between religion and politics.","PeriodicalId":186222,"journal":{"name":"Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116188331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Museum Effects","authors":"Amal Sachedina","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501758614.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758614.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter looks at the public spaces that have come into being; museums, heritage festivals, monuments, street montages, and exhibits have heralded the nahda in a dual sense — an epochal break from the past, even as they celebrate the “return” and the immanence of this history in the present. These values and principles have fundamentally reorganized historical experiences and cultivated new sensibilities and emotional links, providing the context for shaping the nation. In the process, the mode of museal representation that is heritage cleaved the temporal assumptions of sharīʿa time and its relations to the past. The materiality of objects and sites, including sharīʿa manuscripts and mosques, assume an iterative, pedagogical mode of representation through which historical-national claims, histories, and heritage objects substantiate the sultanate. These material effects cultivate everyday national civic virtues and new forms of religiosity and of punctuating time, defining the ethical actions necessary to become an Omani modern citizen through the framework of tradition.","PeriodicalId":186222,"journal":{"name":"Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116997200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}