The Twelver Shia as a Muslim minority in India : pulpit of tears / / Toby M. Howarth

• Autore: Howarth Toby M
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Disciplina: 297.8/21/0954
• Soggetto topico: Shiah - India; Shiah; Religious life - Shiah; Shiah - Customs and practices; Taziyah
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-207) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series editor's preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; Transliteration, translation and notes on the text; An introduction to the Shîca and the events surrounding the Battle of Karbala; 1 From Karbala to India; 2 The Shîca of Hyderabad and their mourning gatherings; 3 The description of a complete mourning gathering (including the text of Sermon 1); 4 Sermons by male 'lay' preachers; 5 Sermons by women; 6 Sermons by religious scholars; 7 What the sermons do and how they do it ; 8 Indian Shîcî preaching as the expression of a minority Islamic religious identityAppendix I; Appendix II; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Qur'ânic passages; General index
• Sommario/riassunto: One of the most important current debates within and about Islam concerns its relation with power. Can Muslims be fundamentally content without power or as a minority? This book considers the voice of an important Muslim minority through its sermons. Indian Shi'i Muslims are a minority within a minority, constituting about ten to fifteen percent of the population as a whole, but comprising of about fifteen million people. Ten sermons are presented entirely and many more are quoted in order to analyze the preaching tradition in full. This book is the first survey to present the Indian mourning
• Titolo autorizzato: The Twelver Shi'a as a Muslim minority in India
• ISBN: 1-134-23173-3; 1-134-23174-1; 1-280-25427-0; 9786610254279; 0-203-01260-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824437003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Persian and Shi'i Studies