عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
230029
eng
Following Sayyida Zaynab: Twelver Shi'ism in Contemporary Syria
/ Edith Szanto Ali-Dib
Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Canada
, 2012.
231p.
Code E.Dissertation: 136
مدخل: زینب بنت علی (ع)
مدخل: اثنا عشریه
PhD
This dissertation begins with the last question regarding the notion of ‘tradition’ and examines seminary pedagogy, weekly women’s ritual mourning gatherings, annual Muharram practices, and non-institutionalized spiritual healing.Two theoretical paradigms frame the ethnography. The first is Talal Asad’s (1986) notion that an anthropology of Islam should approach Islam as a discursive tradition and second, various iterations of the Karbala Paradigm (Fischer 1981). The concepts overlap, yet they also represent distinct approaches to the notion of ‘tradition.’ The overarching argument in this dissertation is that ‘tradition’ for Twelver Shi‘is in Sayyida Zaynab is not only a rhetorical trope but also an intimate, inter-subjective practice, which ties pious Shi‘i to the members of the Family of the Prophet. The sub-topics are changing patterns in religious pedagogy, the role of embodiment, self, and inter-subjectivity in women’s ritual mourning gatherings, and the applicability of Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the carnivalesque (1984). Inspired by Frederick M. Denny (1985), who coined the term ‘orthopraxy’ to describe the importance of ritual practice in Islam, this dissertation refers to transgressive and carnivalesque religious performances as ‘heteropraxy.’ In particular, the emphasis on ‘heteropraxy’ is a critique of recent research on Arab Muslim women’s piety by Saba Mahmood (2005) and Lara Deeb (2006).
زینب(س) بنت علی
شیعه امامیه
Tradition
Imamite Shi'ah
Shi'ah -- Syria
سنت
شیعه -- سوریه
Ali-Dib, Szanto
