This book brings together new perspectives on collective memory in the modern Muslim world. It discusses how memory cultures are established and used at national levels in official history writing, through the erection of monuments, the fashioning of educational curricula and through media strategies as well as in the interface with both artistic expressions and popular culture in the Muslim world at large. The representations of collective memory have been one of the foremost tools in national identity politics, grass-root mobilization, theological debates over Islam and general...