Shi’a Minorities in the Contemporary World : : Migration, Transnationalism and Multilocality /

Shi’a Minorities in the Contemporary World : : Migration, Transnationalism and Multilocality / / Oliver Scharbrodt, Yafa Shanneik.

New comparative perspectives on Shi’a minorities outside the Muslim worldKey featuresProvides comparative insights into Shi’a Muslim communities across the globe, set in Muslim minority contextsMakes an important contribution to understanding the global dynamics of contemporary Shi’a IslamIllustrate...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Scharbrodt, Oliver,
Shanneik, Yafa,
MitwirkendeR:
Badry, Roswitha,
Esposti, Emanuelle Degli,
Formichi, Chiara,
Leichtman, Mara A.,
Rasiah, Arun,
Rexhepi, Piro,
Riggs, Robert J.,
Scharbrodt, Oliver,
Shanneik, Yafa,
Somoza, Mari-Sol García,
Stock, Emiko,
Valcarcel, Mayra Soledad,
Weineck, Benjamin,
Zaidi, Noor Zehra,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Alternative Histories : ALHI
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • GLOSSARY
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 ‘MY HOMELAND IS HUSAYN’: TRANSNATIONALISM AND MULTILOCALITY IN SHI‘A CONTEXTS
  • PART I LOCALISING GLOBAL SHI‘A MINORITY SPACES
  • 2 PERFORMING SHI‘ISM BETWEEN JAVA AND QOM: EDUCATION AND RITUALS
  • 3 MI CORAZÓN LATE HUSAYN: IDENTITY, POLITICS AND RELIGION IN A SHI‘A COMMUNITY IN BUENOS AIRES
  • 4 BEKTASHISM AS A MODEL AND METAPHOR FOR ‘BALKAN ISLAM’
  • 5 LIVING NAJAF IN LONDON: DIASPORA, IDENTITY AND THE SECTARIANISATION OF THE IRAQI-SHI‘A SUBJECT
  • PART II TRANSNATIONAL SHI‘A TRAJECTORIES
  • 6 GLOBAL NETWORKS, LOCAL CONCERNS: INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES ON SHI‘A RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND CONSTITUENCIES
  • 7 ‘STILL WE LONG FOR ZAYNAB’: SOUTH ASIAN SHI‘ITES AND TRANSNATIONAL HOMELANDS UNDER ATTACK
  • 8 FROM A MARGINALISED RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY IN IRAN TO A GOVERNMENT-SANCTIONED PUBLIC INTEREST FOUNDATION IN PARIS: REMARKS ON THE ‘OSTAD ELAHI FOUNDATION’
  • PART III‘ALID PIETY AND THE FLUIDITY OF SECTARIAN BOUNDARIES
  • 9 IDEAS IN MOTION: THE TRANSMISSION OF SHI‘A KNOWLEDGE IN SRI LANKA
  • 10 LIMITS OF SECTARIANISM: SHI‘ISM AND AHL AL-BAYT ISLAM AMONG TURKISH MIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN GERMANY
  • 11 ‘FOR ‘ALI IS OUR ANCESTOR’: CHAM SAYYIDS’ SHI‘A TRAJECTORIES FROM CAMBODIA TO IRAN
  • EPILOGUE
  • 12 SHI‘A COSMOPOLITANISMS AND CONVERSIONS
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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