the importance of museums to lahore
Shanzay Salman ASSIGNMENT: IMPORTANCE OF MUSEUMS- Sheilla Bhatti
Sheila Bhatti argues for the construction of a more inclusive national identity. According to her museums can help in creating and promoting the idea of a new, more inclusive Muslim identity (both internally and externally) in the Pakistani society today.
Identity- (a classic and modern perspective)
Although defined by Giddens as the capacity to keep a particular narrative going, it must also be looked at as a site for constantly changing cultural formation. Hence the more the space that is kept for accepting others, the more the expansion in one's own identity. With globalization of the world, identity consists of how we constitute, perceive, interpret and present ourself to ourselves and others. A brief overview of the history of muslim identity
From the times of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Mecca to the Ashraf class (South Asian muslims of foreign origin) of muslims in the early subcontinent to a divide between the 'enlightened moderates' and the 'Talibaan' of today, muslim identity has undergone a series of changes in ideology and mindsets.
Therefore, the case of conflicted muslim identity is not new. Muslims have long been struggling to derive an identity from accounts relating to the period of the muslim rule in Arabia and the later occupation of the subcontinent by the Mughal 'baadshahs'. A good example would be the conflicted status of dhimmis arising from the contradiction between muslim demeanour in the two chronicles. To aggravate matters and our already abstruse concept of self identification, this period of ruling was closely followed by colonization of the muslims of the subcontinent at the hands of their British colonizers. This has led to a culture of slavery and a sense of inferiority within the muslim youths of today. Even long before this during the reign of the Sultans of Delhi, the were ideologies as diverse as those of the Mamluk(slave) Dynasty
Sheila Bhatti argues for the construction of a more inclusive national identity. According to her museums can help in creating and promoting the idea of a new, more inclusive Muslim identity (both internally and externally) in the Pakistani society today.
Identity- (a classic and modern perspective)
Although defined by Giddens as the capacity to keep a particular narrative going, it must also be looked at as a site for constantly changing cultural formation. Hence the more the space that is kept for accepting others, the more the expansion in one's own identity. With globalization of the world, identity consists of how we constitute, perceive, interpret and present ourself to ourselves and others. A brief overview of the history of muslim identity
From the times of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Mecca to the Ashraf class (South Asian muslims of foreign origin) of muslims in the early subcontinent to a divide between the 'enlightened moderates' and the 'Talibaan' of today, muslim identity has undergone a series of changes in ideology and mindsets.
Therefore, the case of conflicted muslim identity is not new. Muslims have long been struggling to derive an identity from accounts relating to the period of the muslim rule in Arabia and the later occupation of the subcontinent by the Mughal 'baadshahs'. A good example would be the conflicted status of dhimmis arising from the contradiction between muslim demeanour in the two chronicles. To aggravate matters and our already abstruse concept of self identification, this period of ruling was closely followed by colonization of the muslims of the subcontinent at the hands of their British colonizers. This has led to a culture of slavery and a sense of inferiority within the muslim youths of today. Even long before this during the reign of the Sultans of Delhi, the were ideologies as diverse as those of the Mamluk(slave) Dynasty