The other Shiites
Subtitle: from the Mediterranean to Central Asia
By: Alessandro Monsutti, Silvia Naef & Farian Sabahi (eds).
Contributors: Monsutti, Alessandro.; Naef, Silvia.; Sabahi, Farian.
Series: Welten des Islams ; v. 2
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9783039112890
Subjects: Shīʻah -- 20th century.; Shiites.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: The other Shiites : an introduction / Silvia Naef and Farian Sabahi; value: Shia minorities and the state. The Ottoman view of the Shiite community of Iraq in the late nineteenth century / Gökhan Çetinsaya; value: The Anatolian Alevis : ambivalent encounter with modernity in late Ottoman and early republican Turkey / Hans-Lukas Kieser; value: Hizbullah and the legacy of Imam Musa al-Sadr / Hussein Gharbieh; value: The Shiites of Lebanon in the post-war era : a new identity? / Daniel Meier; value: The politicization of the Shia community in Pakistan in the 1970s and 1980s / Mariam Abou Zahab; value: Rituals and social practices as identity markers. The Muharram rituals and the cult of the saints among Iraqi Shiites / Yitzhak Nakash; value: Ashura : some remarks on ritual practices in different Shiite communities (Lebanon and Syria) / Sabrina Mervin; value: Representations and symbols in Muharram and other rituals : fragments of Shiite worlds from Bombay to Karachi / Michel Boivin; value: Image of the self, image of the other : social organization and the role of Ashura among the Hazaras of Quetta (Pakistan) / Alessandro Monsutti; value: Reinterpreting tradition. Shiism, sufism and sacred space in the Deccan : counter-narratives of saintly identity in the cult of Shah Nur / Nile Green; value: The sura of the gift in the oral tradition of the Ismailis of Tajik Badakhshan / Gabrielle Van Den Berg; value: Success and failure of a Shiite modernist : Muhammad ibn Muhammad Mahdi al-Khalisi (1890-1963) / Werner Ende; value: The Twelver Shia online : challenges for its religious authorities / Stephan Rosiny.