Carved in stone, etched in memory : death, tombstones and commemoration in Bosnian Islam since c. 1500

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Carved in stone, etched in memory : death, tombstones and commemoration in Bosnian Islam since c. 1500

Amila Buturovic

Ashgate, c2015

  • : hardcover

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-236) and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction
  • Constructing authenticity, ensuring continuity : death, dying and commemoration in Bosnian Islam
  • Remembering the dead and marking the deathscape
  • Converting the stone : text and images in early Ottoman Bosnia
  • Islamizing memory, framing the community : funerary text in the religious imagination
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix : Stone speaker : a visual and reflective travelogue through the deathscape of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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