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'Imagining Antiquity in Islamic Societies makes for an interesting probe into the often complicated relationship between Islam’s nascent sense of self and its precursors as well as contemporary societies and cultures. Framed around the themes of faḍā’il (virtues) and ʿajā’ib (wonders), the authors explore Islamic responses to antiquity: its physical ruins, the incorporation of spolia into its new occupier’s architecture, the thorny issue of heritage from a historic perspective and bringing it up to the present and covering Abbasid Iraq, Yemen, Islamic India, Ottoman Greece, Palestine and Tunisia.'

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Cleo Cantone, The Muslim World Book Review