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Shi'a minorities in the contemporary world migration, transnationalism and multilocality / edited by Oliver Scharbrodt and Yafa Shanneik.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474430395
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BP193 .S553 2020
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Contents:
Copyright -- 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 -- 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
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 FOUNDAT -- 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 GERMAN
EPILOGUE -- 12 SHI'A COSMOPOLITANISMS AND CONVERSIONS -- NOTES -- Index
Subject: Offers a set of new comparative perspectives on the experiences of Shi'a Muslim minorities outside the 'Muslim heartland' (Middle East, North Africa, Central and South Asia) and discusses the challenges these communities face as 'a minority within a minority'.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Title page -- Copyright -- 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 -- 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 RELIGI -- 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 FOUNDAT -- 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 GERMAN

11 'FOR 'ALI IS OUR ANCESTOR': CHAM SAYYIDS' SHI'A TRAJECTORIES FROM CAMBODIA TO IRAN -- EPILOGUE -- 12 SHI'A COSMOPOLITANISMS AND CONVERSIONS -- NOTES -- Index

Offers a set of new comparative perspectives on the experiences of Shi'a Muslim minorities outside the 'Muslim heartland' (Middle East, North Africa, Central and South Asia) and discusses the challenges these communities face as 'a minority within a minority'.

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