Living Shi ism : instances of ritualisation among Islamist men in contemporary Iran / / by David Thurfjell |
Autore | Thurfjell David |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
Disciplina | 297.3/8095595 |
Collana | Iran studies |
Soggetto topico |
Religious life - Shiah
Shiah - Rituals Shiah - Customs and practices Religious awakening - Iran |
ISBN |
90-04-40924-6
1-281-40039-4 9786611400392 90-474-1078-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Points of Departure -- Setting the Scene -- Embodying Virtue -- The Poetics of Emotion -- Tools of Authorisation -- Crumbling Authority? -- Lectures and Lamentations -- The Creativity of Ritual -- Summary in Persian -- References -- Subject Index -- Name Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821428403321 |
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The women of Karbala : ritual performance and symbolic discourses in modern Shii Islam / / edited by Kamran Scot Aghaie |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 297.8/2/082 |
Altri autori (Persone) | AghaieKamran Scot |
Soggetto topico |
Shiah - Rituals
Religious life - Shiah Muslim women - Religious life Karbala, Battle of, Karbala, Iraq, 680 |
ISBN | 0-292-79657-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""A Note on Transliteration""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""INTRODUCTION: Gendered Aspects of the Emergence and Historical Development of Shi'i Symbols and Rituals (Kamran Scot Aghaie)""; ""PART 1: IRAN""; ""CHAPTER 1: Ta'ziyeh: A Twist of History in Everyday Life (Negar Mottahedeh)""; ""CHAPTER 2: The Gender Dynamics of Moharram Symbols and Rituals in the Latter Years of Qajar Rule (Kamran Scot Aghaie)""; ""CHAPTER 3: ""Oh, My Heart Is Sad. It Is Moharram, the Month of Zaynab"": The Role of Aesthetics and Women's Mourning Ceremonies in Shiraz (Ingvild Flaskerud)""
""CHAPTER 4: The Daughters of Karbala: Images of Women in Popular Shi'i Culture in Iran (Faegheh Shirazi) ""; ""CHAPTER 5: Iconography of the Women of Karbala: Tiles, Murals, Stamps, and Posters (Peter J. Chelkowski) ""; ""PART 2: THE ARAB WORLD, SOUTH ASIA, AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ""; ""CHAPTER 6: Sakineh, The Narrator of Karbala: An Ethnographic Description of a Women's Majles Ritual in Pakistan (Shemeem Burney Abbas) ""; ""CHAPTER 7: Sayyedeh Zaynab: The Conqueror of Damascus and Beyond (Syed Akbar Hyder) "" ""CHAPTER 8: Gender and Moharram Rituals in an Isma'ili Sect of South Asian Muslims (Rehana Ghadially) ""; ""CHAPTER 9: Women of Karbala Moving to America: Shi'i Rituals in Iran, Pakistan, and California (Mary Elaine Hegland) ""; ""CHAPTER 10: Women's Religious Rituals in Iraq (Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Basima Q. Bezirgan) ""; ""CHAPTER 11: From Mourning to Activism: Sayyedeh Zaynab, Lebanese Shi' i Women, and the Transformation of Ashura (Lara Z. Deeb)""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index "" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820366003321 |
Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2005 | ||
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