Widyan Baram Jawsh‍
Supervised by: Asst. Prof. Fatima Saloum Ismail‍
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Karbala Cultural Heritage: Sections of Cultural Heritage or Karbala Cultural Heritage‍
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Heritage can be generally divided into cultural heritage and natural heritage. Cultural heritage means the creative expression resulting from the existence and life of the people in the recent past and present. It is possible to distinguish between the two types: the first relates to tangible or material cultural heritage, and the second relates to intangible or living cultural heritage. Tangible cultural heritage includes landmarks, buildings, works of art, artifacts, and drawings. This tangible cultural heritage contains movable tangible cultural heritage such as artifacts and others, and immovable tangible cultural heritage such as archaeological and memorial buildings and others. (Al-Khafaji, 2002: 22) As for intangible or immaterial cultural heritage: it means the main source of cultural diversity such as practices, representations, expression, knowledge, craft skills, food traditions, documents, and historical manuscripts. It is a cultural community based on the subjectivity of cultural and social traditions and transmits its standards orally or through imitation. It includes in its forms language, literature, myths, rituals, and customs (Ahmed and Muhammad, 2021: 15).‍