Displaying the Cultures of Islam at the British Museum: The Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World

Porter, Venetia; Greenwood, William R.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-28880-8_9

Curating Islamic Art Worldwide 2019

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-28880-8_9

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Displaying the Cultures of Islam at the British Museum: The Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World

Venetia Porter

William R. Greenwood

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“…20 Nasser Rabbat on Twitter, https://twitter.com/nayelshafei/status/1089659395519205376 (accessed on 8 March 2022). See also (Rabbat 2012), https://www.artforum.com/print/201201/the-new-islamic-art-galleries-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-29813 (accessed on 8 March 2022), and (Porter and Greenwood 2020). 21 (Grinell 2020, p. 31).…”

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The Religious Plot in Museums or the Lack Thereof: The Case of Islamic Art Display

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During the last decade, the curation of Islamic art and artifacts has been crossed by tensions at both the theoretical and practical level. Not only has it been continuously grappling with the Orientalist legacy, but it has also been operating in a global contemporaneity affected by multiple conflicts engendering a misperception of Muslims and Islam by non-Muslims. With this heavy background, this curation has been pursuing three main objectives: educating the public, decolonizing the museum, and reaching out to the Muslim communities and refugees living in non-Muslim societies. However, in the West, which remains worldly influential in the domain of heritage management, the first two objectives drove curators to engage in problematic practices, most notably the suppression of what we may call the “religious plot” in the exhibits’ narrative. Moreover, while the educational impulse led to a secular didactic scholasticism erected as the supreme exhibitory norm, the decolonizing enterprise took on an ideological turn in the form of a neo-postcolonial discourse at odds with a reality that has considerably changed since the seventies. Contesting the “being Islamic” of the material curated, this discourse separates religion from culture, thus relegating the faith to a theme among other multiple themes in the museum displays. That this state of affairs is problematic appears in crude light as, in the last decade, a new Muslim-led curatorship has been challenging this secularist curatorial politics. Re-centering Islam in the representational emplotment regarding Islamic culture in the exhibitory space and experimenting in the installations’ design to this effect, this curatorship, this essay’s author believes, holds the future of Islamic museology.

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