Curating Islamic Art Worldwide From Malacca to Manchester

Introduction.- 1. Objects, Storytelling, Memory and Living Histories: Curating Islamic Art Empathically in an Era of Trauma and Displacement.- 2. Labelling Islam: Structuring Ideas in Islamic Galleries.- 3. Not Malacca but Marege: Islamic Art in Australia (Or, ‘What Have the Umayyads Ever Done for Us?’).- 4. From Mosque to Museum: the Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Cultures, Be’er Sheva, Israel.- 5. Display of the Sacred Relics Gallery in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, Istanbul (TIEM).- 6. In Pursuit of Islamic Art in Moscow.- 7. Representing the Bangsamoro in an Exhibition of Ethnography at the National Museum of the Philippines.- 8. Displaying the Cultures of Islam at the British Museum: The Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World.- 9. Islamic Art and Saudi Arabia: Reconnecting Communities with Collections.- 10. Exploring World Faiths in Museum Collections.- 11. Curating Islamic Art in the Central United States: New Approaches to Collections, Installations and Audience Engagement.     

Jenny Norton-Wright is Arabic Scientific Manuscripts Curator at the British Library, London, and a PhD student at SOAS.