People of the Prophet's House
Subtitle: artisitc ritual expressions of Shi'i Islam
By: edited by Fahmida Suleman
Contributors: Institute of Ismaili Studies
Publisher: Azimuth Editions in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies [and] in collaboration with the British Museum's Department of the Middle East
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781898592327
Subjects: Congresses; Family; Shīʻah; Customs and rituals; Prayers and devotions; Shiites; Rites and ceremonies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 266 - 269) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Introduction.; title: 1. Shiʻi art and ritual: contexts, definitions and expressions /Fahmida Suleman and Shainool Jiwa; title: 2. Are there Shiʻi forms of art? / Oleg Grabar; title: Part 2: Pilgrimage and patronage; title: 3. The Shiʻi shrines of Iraq /James W. Allan; title: 4. Glorifying the Imamate: architecture and ritual in the Shiʻi shrines of Syria / Yasser Tabbaa; title: 5. Evanescent meaning: the place of Shiʻism in Fatimid mosques / Jonathan M. Bloom; title: 6. A Shiʻi building boom in 14th-century Qum: the case of Bagh-i Sabz towers / Robert Hillenbrand; title: 7. Pilgrims and patrons: ziyāra under the Samanids and Bavandids / Melanie Michailidis; title: Part 3: Inscriptions on art, architecture and coinage; title: 8. Early Qurʼans signed by the Shiʻi Imams / Sheila R. Canby; title: 9. Writing about faith: epigraphic evidence for the development of Twelver Shiʻism in Iran / Sheila S. Blair; title: 10. The writing on the walls: selections from the Twelver Shiʻi epigraphs of Lucknow's Hussainabad Imambara / Hussein Keshani; title: 11. ʻAlī walī Allāh and other non-Qurʼanic references to the Ahl al-bayt on Islamic coinage before the Saljuq period / Luke Treadwell; title: Part 4: Iconographic studies: Shiʻi contexts and beyond.; title: 12. Between the past and the future: the fālnāma (book of omens) in the 16th and early 17th centuries / Masumeh Farhad; title: 13. Exploring Ahl al-bayt imagery in Qajar Iran (1785-1925) / Maryam Ekhtiar; title: 14. Shiʻism and contemporary Iranian art / Venetia Porter; title: 15. Dhuʼl-faqar and the Ottomans / Zeynep Yiirekli; title: 16. The Hand of Fatima: in search of its origins and significance / Fahmida Suleman; title: Part 5: Ritual expressions.; title: 17. Lasting elegy: Shiʻi art and architecture / Peter J. Chelkowski; title: 18. ʻArūze Qāsem - a theatrical event in Shiʻi female commemorative rituals / Ingvild Flaskerud; title: 19. Cinema as a cultural reservoir for the Shiʻi performing art of taʻziya / Nacim Pak-Shiraz; title: 20. Some historic taʻziyas of Multan / Tryna Lyons; title: 21. Chirogh rawshan: Shiʻi ceremonial practised by the Ismaili communities of Xinjiang China / Amier Saidula; title: 22. Building and performing Shiʻi Islam in Sufi Senegal: a photo essay / Mara A. Leichtman