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Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern
Cultivating the Past, Living the
Modern explores how and why heritage has
emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern nation state of
Oman. Amal Sachedina 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 the coffee
pot or the dagger ( khanjar ), and archaeological sites-have
saturated the landscape, becoming increasingly ubiquitous as part
of a standardized public and visual memorialization of the past.
Oman's expanding heritage industry, exemplified by the boom in
museums, exhibitions, street montages, and cultural festivals,
shapes a distinctly national geography and territorialized
narrative.
But Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern
demonstrates there are consequences to this celebration of
heritage. As the national narrative conditions the way people
ethically work on themselves through evoking forms of heritage, it
also generates anxieties and emotional sensibilities that seek to
address the erasures and occlusions of the past.
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Historical Muscat
An examination of the historical environment of Muscat, the capital of Oman, and the damage sustained by the city's historical legacy since 1970. It includes a historical gazetteer of Muscat and its environs and numerous maps and photographs.
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In the time of oil : piety, memory, and social life in an Omani town
Before the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, Oman was one of the poorest countries in the world, with only six kilometers of paved roads and one hospital. By the late 1970s, all that had changed as Oman used its new oil wealth to build a modern infrastructure. In the Time of Oil describes how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced this dramatic transformation following the discovery of oil, and how they now grapple with the prospect of this resource's future depletion.
Focusing on shifting structures of governance and new forms of sociality as well as on the changes brought by mass schooling, piped water, and the fracturing of close ties with East Africa, Mandana Limbert shows how personal memories and local histories produce divergent notions about proper social conduct, piety, and gendered religiosity. With close attention to the subtleties of everyday life and the details of archival documents, poetry, and local histories, Limbert provides a rich historical ethnography of oil development, piety, and social life on the Arabian Peninsula.
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Social and Gender Inequality in Oman
Looking at the social, political and legal changes in Oman since 1970, this book challenges the Islamic and tribal traditional cultural norms relating to marriage, divorce and women's rights which guide social and legal practice in the modern Omani state. The book argues that despite the establishment of legal instruments guaranteeing equality for all citizens, the fact that the state depends upon Islamic and tribal elites for its legitimacy invalidates these guarantees in practice. Two particular features of the legal and cultural regulation of marriage and marital rights are focused on - the perceived requirement for kafa'a or equality in marriage between so called high and low socio-economic status peoples is examined, and the institution of talaq, which grants greater rights to men than to women in appeals for divorce. This book addresses highly complex subjects with great rigor, in terms of empirical research and engagement with theory, sociological and political as well as theological and legal. It is an interesting investigation of the divisions of authority between the state, Islam and tribal norms, highlighting barriers to reform in both Oman and wider Islamic society, and advocating the removal of such obstacles.
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Integrating Open and Big Data via ‘e-Oman’: prospects and issues
While ‘e-Oman’ is a repository of Open Data, its significance in terms of being a potent source for Big Data deserves attention. This paper seeks to underscore how important is the integration of Big and Open Data in e-Oman – the e-government portal of Oman. Drawing evidence from four case studies based on the Higher Education Admissions Center (HEAC) ‘e-Portal’ – an online portal meant for the payment of electricity bills, traffic fines and visa applications – the paper lends support to the implementation of integration of Big and Open Data which, for a number of purposes, could be better harnessed. Thus, while the paper identifies the opportunities entailed in achieving the integration of Big and Open Data in the context of the case studies chosen for the study, there are concomitant challenges impacting this integration that need to be addressed. Specifically, e-Oman needs to be updated with Open Data and the government needs to take steps to build and maintain a robust physical, human and information infrastructure for harnessing the potential of integrating Open and Big Data in the public sector. The paper concludes with directions for future research.
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