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Proceedings of the Doha Conference of ‘Ulama on Islam and Cultural Heritage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2008

Lawrence Rosen
Lawrence Rosen
Affiliation:
Princeton University and Columbia Law School. Email: lrosen@princeton.edu
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Proceedings of the Doha Conference of ‘Ulama on Islam and Cultural Heritage. Doha, Qatar. December 30–31, 2001. Pp. 73 in English and Arabic each. New York: UNESCO, 2005.

On February 26, 2001, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan ordered the destruction of “all statues and non-Islamic shrines” in the country. In March the ministers of culture and finance destroyed 2750 of the nation's art treasures; after a month of intensive shelling, the Taliban government obliterated the statues of the Buddha in Bamiyan. At the end of December 2001, a conference of Islamic legal scholars (‘ulama) was convened on the subject of cultural heritage at Doha, Qatar. In between, of course, came the September 11, 2001, attacks (9/11).

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BOOK REVIEW
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International Journal of Cultural Property , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , February 2008 , pp. 101 - 103
Copyright
© 2008 International Cultural Property Society

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