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UNINA9910465471003321 |
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Autore |
Ruffle Karen G |
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Gender, sainthood, & everyday practice in South Asian Shi'ism [[electronic resource] /] / Karen G. Ruffle |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 |
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1-4696-0298-9 |
0-8078-7797-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Islamic civilization & Muslim networks |
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Shīʻah - India |
Shīʻah - Customs and practices |
Religious life - Shīʻah |
Women in Islam - India |
Electronic books. |
Lucknow (India) Religious life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Transliteration; INTRODUCTION; 1 SAINTS ARE "REAL" PEOPLE: Imitable Sainthood in Shi'ism; 2 GOD'S STRONG WOMEN: Female & Feminine in Shi'i Sainthood; 3 THE SADDEST STORY EVER TOLD: Translating Karbala through Feminine Voices & Emotions into a Deccani Shi'i Idiom; 4 A BRIDE OF ONE NIGHT, A WIDOW FOREVER: Text & Ritual Performance in the Constitution of an Idealized South Asian Shi'i Selfhood; 5 WHO COULD MARRY AT A TIME LIKE THIS?: Debating the Mehndī kī Majlis in Hyderabad; Glossary; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
NotesBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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In this study of devotional hagiographical texts and contemporary ritual performances of the Shi'a of Hyderabad, India, Karen Ruffle demonstrates how traditions of sainthood and localized cultural values shape gender roles. Ruffle focuses on the annual mourning assemblies held on 7 Muharram to commemorate the battlefield wedding of |
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Fatimah Kubra and her warrior-bridegroom Qasem, who was martyred at the battle of Karbala, Iraq, in 680 C.E. before their wedding was consummated.Ruffle argues that hagiography, an important textual tradition in Islam, plays a dynamic role in constructing th |
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UNINA9910782973603321 |
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Autore |
Lewis Geoffrey <1929-> |
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Carson : the man who divided Ireland / / Geoffrey Lewis |
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London, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Hambledon Continuum, , 2005 |
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©2005 |
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1-282-02480-9 |
9786612024801 |
0-8264-3232-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (308 p.) |
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Politicians - Ireland |
Lawyers - Ireland |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Dublin; 2 Home Rule; 3 London; 4 Oscar Wilde; 5 The End of Unionist Government; 6 The Naval Cadet; 7 The House of Lords; 8 The Conservative Leadership; 9 Asquith's Home Rule Bill; 10 Ulster; 11 Marconi; 12 The Curragh; 13 Craigavon; 14 War and Peace; 15 Opposition; 16 The Fall of Asquith; 17 Final Attempt; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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The partition of Ireland in 1921, and the birth of Northern Ireland as a political entity, was the work of one man above all. Edward Carson, born in Dublin in 1854, was a brilliant lawyer whose cross-questioning of Oscar Wilde at his libel trial brought about Wilde's downfall. An inspiring orator and a political heavyweight at Westminster, his defence of Unionism in the years before the First World War, and of the rights of Ulster not to be swamped in an independent Ireland, made a united |
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Ireland a political impossibility. While some of his actions were denounced in England as close to treason |
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