The Women of Karbala : : Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi'i Islam /

The Women of Karbala : : Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi'i Islam / / ed. by Kamran Scot Aghaie.

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Commemorating the Battle of Karbala, in which the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Hosayn and seventy-two of his family members and supporters were martyred in 680 CE, is the central religious observance of Shi'i Islam. Though much has been written about the rituals that reenact and venerate Ka...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Aghaie, Kamran Scot,
Akbar Hyder, Syed,
Bezirgan, Basima Q.,
Burney Abbas, Shemeem,
Chelkowski, Peter J.,
Deeb, Lara Z.,
Flaskerud, Ingvild,
Ghadially, Rehana,
Hegland, Mary Elaine,
Mottahedeh, Negar,
Shirazi, Faegheh,
Warnock Fernea, Elizabeth,
HerausgeberIn:
Aghaie, Kamran Scot,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2005
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (309 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note on Transliteration
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Gendered Aspects of the Emergence and Historical Development of Shi‘i Symbols and Rituals
  • PART 1. Iran
  • 1. Ta'ziyeh: A Twist of History in Everyday Life
  • 2. The Gender Dynamics of Moharram Symbols and Rituals in the Latter Years of Qajar Rule
  • 3. ‘‘Oh, My Heart Is Sad. It Is Moharram, the Month of Zaynab’’: The Role of Aesthetics and Women’s Mourning Ceremonies in Shiraz
  • 4. The Daughters of Karbala: Images of Women in Popular Shi'i Culture in Iran
  • 5. Iconography of the Women of Karbala: Tiles, Murals, Stamps, and Posters
  • PART 2. The Arab World, South Asia, and the United States of America
  • 6. Sakineh, The Narrator of Karbala: An Ethnographic Description of a Women’s Majles Ritual in Pakistan
  • 7. Sayyedeh Zaynab: The Conqueror of Damascus and Beyond
  • 8. Gender and Moharram Rituals in an Isma'ili Sect of South Asian Muslims
  • 9. Women of Karbala Moving to America: Shi'i Rituals in Iran, Pakistan, and California
  • 10. Women’s Religious Rituals in Iraq
  • 11. From Mourning to Activism: Sayyedeh Zaynab, Lebanese Shi‘i Women, and the Transformation of Ashura
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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