عنوان

Shiʻa minorities in the contemporary world :

1474430392

1474430406

9781474430395

9781474430401

1474430376

9781474430371

bnb

bc10189

انگلیسی

Shiʻa minorities in the contemporary world :

[Book]

migration, transnationalism and multilocality /

edited by Oliver Scharbrodt and Yafa Shanneik.

Edinburgh :

Edinburgh University Press,

2020.

©2020

1 online resource (xix, 324 pages) :

illustrations, map

Alternative histories: narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. "My homeland is Husayn" : transnationalism and multilocality in Shiʻa contexts / Oliver Scharbrodt and Yafa Shanneik -- 2. Performing Shiʻism between Java and Qom : education and rituals / Chiara Formichi -- 3. Mi corazón late Husayn : identity, politics and religion in a Shiʻa community in Buenos Aires / Mari-Sol García Somoza and Mayra Soledad Valcarcel -- 4. Bektashism as a model and metaphor for "Balkan Islam" / Piro Rexhepi -- 5. Living najaf in London : diaspora, identity, and the sectarianisation of the Iraqi-Shiʻa subject / Emanuelle Degli Esposti -- 6. Global networks, local concerns : investigating the impact of emerging technologies on Shiʻa religious leaders and constituencies / Robert J. Riggs -- 7. "Still we long for Zaynab" : South Asian Shiʻites and transnational homelands under attack / Noor Zehra Zaidi -- 8. From a marginalised religious community in Iran to a government-sanctioned public interest foundation in Paris : remarks on the Ostad Elahi Foundation / Roswitha Badry -- 9. Ideas in motion : the transmission of Shiʻa knowledge in Sri Lanka / Harun Rasiah -- 10. Limits of sectarianism : Shiʻism and ahl al-bayt Islam among Turkish migrant communities in Germany / Benjamin Weineck -- 11. "For 'Ali is our ancestor" : Cham Sayyids' Shiʻa trajectories from Cambodia to Iran / Emiko Stock -- 12. Shiʻa cosmopolitanisms and conversions / Mara A. Leichtman.

0

Global migration flows in the 20th century have seen the emergence of Muslim diaspora and minority communities in Europe, North America and other parts of the world. This book offers a set of new comparative perspectives on the experiences of Shi'a Muslim minorities outside the so-called Muslim heartland (Middle East, North Africa, Central and South Asia). It looks at Shiʻa minority communities in Europe, North and South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia and discusses the particular challenges these communities face as "a minority within a minority"--

JSTOR

22573/ctv1456wjp

Shi'a minorities in the contemporary world.

1474430376

Muslim diaspora.

Muslims-- Non-Islamic countries.

Shiites-- Social conditions.

Muslim diaspora.

Muslims.

Non-Islamic countries.

7

Scharbrodt, Oliver,1976-

Shanneik, Yafa

20210909113404.0

pn

[Book]

270410

Y