عنوان

Āshūrā :

(Number (ISBN

9789953004600

(Number (ISBN

9953004609

Number

b738106

Title Proper

Āshūrā :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

this blood spilled in my veins /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jalal Toufic.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[Place of publication not identified] :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Forthcoming Books,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2005.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

107 pages :

Other Physical Details

color illustrations ;

Dimensions

19 x 21 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-105).

Text of Note

"Al-Ḥusayn, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad and the son of the first Shi'ite imam, Ali, was slaughtered alongside many members of his family in the desert in 680. This memory is torture to me. But, basically, one can say this memory is torture to me of every memory, since each reminiscence envelops at some level the memory of the origin of memory, the torture that had to be inflicted on humans in order to make them remember (Nietzsche). The memory that the yearly commemoration of Ashura is trying to maintain is not only or mainly that of the past, but the memory of the future, namely the promise of the Parousia of the twelfth imam, the long-awaited Mahdi, notwithstanding the passage of a millennium since his occultation--as well as the corresponding promise of Duodeciman Shi'ites to wait for him. Ashura: a condition of possibility of an unconditional promise"--Jalal Toufic.

Martyrdom-- Islam, Pictorial works.

Muslim martyrs-- Middle East, Pictorial works.

Promises-- Religious aspects-- Islam.

Self-mutilation-- Islam, Pictorial works.

Shīʻah.

Violence-- Religious aspects-- Islam, Pictorial works.

Martyrdom-- Islam.

Muslim martyrs.

Shīʻah.

Violence-- Religious aspects-- Islam.

Middle East.

7

Number

Class number

Book number

Toufic, Jalal.

Date of Transaction

20201203231809.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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