Archaeology, Politics and Islamicate Cultural Heritage in Europe

David J. Govantes-Edwards is a Research Associate at Newcastle University (UK). He specialises in the archaeology of technology and the production, distribution and consumption of glass and glazed ceramics in medieval Spain, where he worked for over a decade as a commercial archaeologist. He coordinates several international fieldwork projects in Madīnat al-Zahrā (Córdoba, Spain, UNESCO World Heritage Site), the Alhambra (Granada, Spain, UNESCO World Heritage Site), Bolgar (Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation, UNESCO World Heritage Site) and Reccopolis (Guadalajara, Spain), as well as taking part in other highprofile research projects as consultant and specialist.

• Contents List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Foreword xv Bethany J. Walker Background and Overview 1  Introduction 1  David J. Govantes-Edwards 2 Shooting Ourselves in the Foot: A Personal Take on the Political 11 Chloë N. Duckworth The Western Mediterranean 3 Politics and the History of al-Andalus 23 David J. Govantes- Edwards  Gendered Pasts: Women in al-Andalus 39 Mikel Herran and Nicola Clarke 5 Accentuating the Ordinary: Pottery and everyday life in Islamic Sicily 53 Veronica Testolini and Peter M. Day 6 Rethinking the Borders of Islamic Art: Paterna Ceramics from the Fourteenth Century to Today 67 Anna McSweeney 7 The Last Islamicate  Society in South-Western Europe: The Projection of Power in the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada 83 Alberto García  Porras 8 Damnatio Memoriae: Islamicate Medieval Archaeology in the Balearic Island of Menorca 99 Amalia  Pérez-Juez and Elena Sintes Olives The Balkans 9 The Material Past of the Other: The Ottoman Architectural  Heritage of Greek Macedonia 111 Ioannis Stavridopoulos 10 Between Transculturation and Re-Enculturation: The Gravestones of Ottoman Bosnia and Europe’s Islamicate Archaeology 131 Amila Buturovic Russia 11 The Central Bazaar in the City of Bolgar on the Volga 149 Vladimir Koval and Denis Badeev 12 Nomadic Islam: An  Archaeological Approach to the Islamization of the Caspian Steppe 161 Irina Shingiray Counter-narratives 13  From “Islamic Art” to “Muslim Heritage”: The Display of Islam in Museums of Europe and Beyond 183 Virginie  Rey 14 Islamicate Archaeology and Its Counter-narratives 197 Philip Wood Index 211