Amila Buturovic

Carved in Stone, Etched in Memory

Death, Tombstones and Commemoration in Bosnian Islam Since C.1500

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gravestones are seen as cultural spaces that inscribe memory, history, and heritage in addition to being texts that display first-hand information about the deceased. This book underscores the importance of material culture, specifically gravestones, funerary inscriptions and images, in tracing and understanding more subtle changes in Bosnia's religious landscape and the complex cultural shifts and exchange between Christianity and Islam in this area. Drawing upon several disciplinary methods, the book has much to offer anyone looking for a better understanding of the intersection of Christianity and Islam, as well as those with an interest in death studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781472432605
• ISBN-10: 1472432606
• Artikelnr.: 44635403

Autorenporträt

Amila Buturovic is Associate Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies at York University, Toronto. Her research interests span the intersections of religion and culture, especially in relation to Islam in the Balkans. She is the author of Stone Speaker: Medieval Tombstones, Landscape, and Bosnian Identity in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar (Palgrave, 2002), and a co-editor, with Irvin C Schick, of Women in the Ottoman Balkans: Gender, Culture and History (I.B. Tauris, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Constructing authenticity, ensuring continuity: death, dying and commemoration in Bosnian Islam
Remembering the dead and marking the deathscape
Converting the stone: text and image in early Ottoman Bosnia
Islamising memory, framing the community: funerary text in the religious imagination
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.