Cultivating the Past, Living the ModernCultivating the Past, Living the Modern explores how and why heritage has emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern nation state of Oman. Amal Sachedina analyses the relations with the past that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari'a Imamate (19131958) to a modern nation state from 1970 onwards. Since its inception as a nation state, material forms in the Sultanate of Omansuch as old mosques and shari'a manuscripts, restored