Amal Sachedina
Biographic Data
| ID | 110408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amal Sachedina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amal |
| FAMILY NAME | Sachedina |
| SIGNATURE | SACHEDINA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counter Histories in Southern Oman
The “Ideal” Islamic Polity: History-Making and the Modern Nation-State in Khoja-Moolji’s Sovereign Attachments
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Assimilating the Heterogeneity of Migrant Populations through a National Past: Transforming a Shiʿa Minority Community in Post-Nationalist Oman
Scholarship on the Arab Gulf region often links heritage production with technologies of state pedagogy in its efforts to fix the spatial boundaries of a nation and entrench authoritarian rule. Yet, such a modular explanation ignores pressing questions regarding how statist narratives domesticate heterogeneous populations and regulate social difference. This paper explores the ways in which official accounts of the historical past have interpella…
Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman
Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman
This book explores how and why heritage has emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern nation-state of Oman. The book analyses the relations with the past that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari'a Imamate (1913–1958) to a modern nation-state from 1970 onwards. Since its inception as a nation-state, material forms in the Sultanate of Oman — such as old mosques and shari'a manuscripts, restored forts, national symbols such as …
Forging Nationalism Through Heritage in Oman
During his five-decade reign, Sultan Qaboos bin Said relied on heritage as a key tool for nation-building. Old forts and objects central to Omani traditional culture like the coffee urn and the ceremonial dagger became symbols of a unifying national ethos. At the same time, their former political significance was downplayed. But some Omanis have held onto memories of a different conception of the past. And now, after the sultan’s death in 2020, h…
Conclusion: Cultivating the Past
Nizwa Fort
Since becoming a nation-state in 1970, Oman's expanding heritage industry has included the restoration of castles and citadels, including the fort at Nizwa. The fort was once the administrative and juridical center of the Ibadi Imamate (1913–58). As the site of sharia adjudication, it sanctioned a past of primarily moral nature, oriented toward God and salvation and grounded in Ibadi doctrine and practice. This mode of history implied that everyd…
The politics of the coffee pot: Its changing role in history-making and the place of religion in the Sultanate of Oman
Centered on the dalla, the Omani coffee pot, this paper considers how the social practices and knowledges induced by its material form and function organize different forms of perceptual skills. These skills habituate ways of seeing that become a means towards examining the shift from the religio–ethical relationships that defined the shari'a society of the last Ibadi Islamic Imamate that ruled the interior of the region (1913–1955) to those that…
The Nature of Difference: Forging Arab Asia at the American Museum of Natural History
Since 9/11, an increasing number of educational initiatives have called for facilitating intercultural understanding and knowledge of the Arab world. In terms of defusing conflict across cultural and religious lines, toleration is regarded as a key virtue, although this concept is not confined to a post-9/11 world. Inaugurated in 1980, the Hall of Asian Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History was designed with such an end in mind. The e…
The Nature of Difference: Forging Arab Asia at the American Museum of Natural History
Since 9/11, an increasing number of educational initiatives have called for facilitating intercultural understanding and knowledge of the Arab world. In terms of defusing conflict across cultural and religious lines, toleration is regarded as a key virtue, although this concept is not confined to a post-9/11 world. Inaugurated in 1980, the Hall of Asian Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History was designed with such an end in mind. The e…
The Nature of Difference: Forging Arab Asia at the American Museum of Natural History
Since 9/11, an increasing number of educational initiatives have called for facilitating intercultural understanding and knowledge of the Arab world. In terms of defusing conflict across cultural and religious lines, toleration is regarded as a key virtue, although this concept is not confined to a post-9/11 world. Inaugurated in 1980, the Hall of Asian Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History was designed with such an end in mind. The e…
Nizwa Fort
Since becoming a nation-state in 1970, Oman's expanding heritage industry has included the restoration of castles and citadels, including the fort at Nizwa. The fort was once the administrative and juridical center of the Ibadi Imamate (1913–58). As the site of sharia adjudication, it sanctioned a past of primarily moral nature, oriented toward God and salvation and grounded in Ibadi doctrine and practice. This mode of history implied that everyd…
The politics of the coffee pot: Its changing role in history-making and the place of religion in the Sultanate of Oman
Centered on the dalla, the Omani coffee pot, this paper considers how the social practices and knowledges induced by its material form and function organize different forms of perceptual skills. These skills habituate ways of seeing that become a means towards examining the shift from the religio–ethical relationships that defined the shari'a society of the last Ibadi Islamic Imamate that ruled the interior of the region (1913–1955) to those that…
Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman
Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman
This book explores how and why heritage has emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern nation-state of Oman. The book analyses the relations with the past that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari'a Imamate (1913–1958) to a modern nation-state from 1970 onwards. Since its inception as a nation-state, material forms in the Sultanate of Oman — such as old mosques and shari'a manuscripts, restored forts, national symbols such as …
Forging Nationalism Through Heritage in Oman
During his five-decade reign, Sultan Qaboos bin Said relied on heritage as a key tool for nation-building. Old forts and objects central to Omani traditional culture like the coffee urn and the ceremonial dagger became symbols of a unifying national ethos. At the same time, their former political significance was downplayed. But some Omanis have held onto memories of a different conception of the past. And now, after the sultan’s death in 2020, h…
Conclusion: Cultivating the Past
Assimilating the Heterogeneity of Migrant Populations through a National Past: Transforming a Shiʿa Minority Community in Post-Nationalist Oman
Scholarship on the Arab Gulf region often links heritage production with technologies of state pedagogy in its efforts to fix the spatial boundaries of a nation and entrench authoritarian rule. Yet, such a modular explanation ignores pressing questions regarding how statist narratives domesticate heterogeneous populations and regulate social difference. This paper explores the ways in which official accounts of the historical past have interpella…
The “Ideal” Islamic Polity: History-Making and the Modern Nation-State in Khoja-Moolji’s Sovereign Attachments
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counter Histories in Southern Oman
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