This study rests on intertwined concepts: values as standards and judgments guiding behavior; popular heritage as an inherited cultural stock carrying customs, traditions, and stories; Islamic literature as an influential artistic expression arising from a believing self and reconciling beauty with commitment; and anthropology as a science studying human beings and their cultural and social life. These concepts are not separate; they form a cognitive network: values are the essence, heritage is the vessel, Islamic literature is the artistic form, and anthropology is the revealing tool. The study addresses the Iraqi novelist Na’im Al-Musafir and his novel Voices from There, a polyphonic text in which Tell Sasa, the Sasi River, the village, and other characters speak, forming together a multi-layered narrative fabric.

The study adopts the descriptive-analytical method, describing literary phenomena and then analyzing them to reveal their value-related and anthropological significations. It aims to show how Islamic values operate through popular heritage, analyze anthropological structures, explain the transformation of place into a value-bearing character, and examine the role of polyphony in building collective memory. Its importance lies in treating a contemporary text that has not been extensively studied academically, in combining values and heritage in an ethical-anthropological approach, and in preserving and documenting Iraqi heritage. The study concludes that Islamic values are not presented sermonically but manifest through practices, rituals, and attitudes; that moral values are a dynamic and complex binary; that popular heritage is a living vessel for values and a field of struggle between preservation and extinction; that place becomes memory, authority, and myth; that values become a critical tool for social reality; and that the anthropological dimension reveals that place is not silent and the past is not dead.