Between destruction, protection, and transformative re-creation
Journal: transcript Verlag eBooks
Year: 2024

This article discusses the politics of patrimonialization in the historical and cultural context of Crimea's Muslim material heritage. It asks how the peninsula's richIslamic past -from the Seljuk, Golden Horde, Ottoman, Crimean Khanate, and later imperial Russian and Soviet eras -is integrated into national heritage politics, and explores the rationales and mechanisms behind cases where it is ignored or even erased.Starting with an historical overview, the article continues with an account of t