Heritage under the impact of absence of a cultural project and a lack of awareness - Iraq Case Study

Abstract

Heritage despite the clarity of its meaning in language and idiomatic meaning, however, the researcher cannot find an uniform definition to define heritage. Therefore, the specialists and scholars differed in their definition of heritage, each one defined it according to his field and point of view. So, the heritage became has multiple definitions, based on the use fields of this term. Like what they said usually, physical heritage, architectural heritage, cultural heritage, natural heritage, folklore heritage, Arabic heritage , Islamic heritage , Moroccan heritage or Amazigh heritage and at other times they said cultural heritage, they mean world Heritage. There are a lot of definitions, each definition reflects the field that came from it. The concept of heritage is not complete without combined with the concept of preservation and revival