Visualizing belief and piety in Iranian Shiism
By: Ingvild Flaskerud
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781441149077
Table of contents: title: Note on transliteration; title: Preface and acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Part I. The portrait of Imam Ali: 1. The emergence of a prototypical model and its survival; title: 2. Imam Ali in Shia memory; title: 3. The iconography of Imam Ali and its reception; title: Part II. The battle at Karbala: 4. The battle at Karbala in Shia memory and piety; title: 5. Visual Karbala narratives in Shia piety; title: 6. The parcham wall-hanging; title: 7. Representation and reception of Karbala in colour posters; title: Part III. Images and decorative designs in ritual space: 8. The image as a votive gift; title: 9. Images in the liturgy of commemoration and celebration; title: 10. Decorative programmes across gendered ritual space; title: 11. Transposing iconography; title: Conclusion.