عنوان

The Twelver Sh?ia as a Muslim minority in India

(Number (ISBN

9786610254279

Country Code

IR

Number

ebook3918

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Country of publication

IR

Title Proper

The Twelver Sh?ia as a Muslim minority in India

General Material Designation

[Electronic Resource]

Other Title Information

:pulpit of tears

First Statement of Responsibility

/ Toby M. Howarth

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxii, 213 pages.

Series Title

(Routledge Persian and Sh?i?i studies series)

Text of Note

Title from e-book title screen (viewed October 2, 2007).

Text of Note

GMD: electronic resource.

Text of Note

e

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Context -- From Karbala to India: a history of Shici preaching -- Roots of Islamic preaching -- The message of Shici mourning gatherings up to the sixteenth century -- The development of mourning gatherings in Iran and South India from the sixteenth century -- Mourning gatherings in North India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The birth of the modern sermon -- Preaching at mourning gatherings in Asaf Jahi Hyderabad (1720-1948) -- Preaching without political power: Hyderabad since India's independence -- The Shi'a of Hyderabad and their mourning gatherings -- Hyderabad's Shici community -- The mourning gathering in the religious life of Hyderabadi Shi'as -- Varieties of mourning gathering -- The annual cycle of mourning gatherings -- Sunni perceptions of Shi'i mourning practices -- The preachers -- Becoming a preacher and community 'control' over the majlis pulpit -- Sermons -- The description of a complete mourning gathering (including the text of Sermon 1) -- The elegies -- The sermon -- The flagellation -- Sermons by male 'lay' preachers -- 'A son dies in his father's arms' -- 'A miraculous healing' -- 'Hindus commemorate the death of Husayn' -- 'Religion and politics' -- Sermons by women -- 'Supplication and fire-walking' -- 'Imam Husayn as a child' -- 'The remembrance of Imam Hasan' -- Sermons by religious scholars -- 'A necklace of pearls of the praises of Imam cAli' -- 'Women's rights' -- Analysis -- What the sermons do and how they do it -- Defending the faith in a pluralist world -- Uniting the community in praise of its heroes -- Binding the community in a narrative of Suffering -- Indian Shi'i preaching as the expression of a minority Islamic religious identity -- The theology of the sermons -- The purpose of the majlis, its sermon and the Shici community -- Interviews.

Title

Routledge Persian and Sh?i?i studies series

Variant Title

CRKN - Taylor & Francis ebooks

Sh?iah--India

Religious life--Sh?iah

Sh?iah--Sermons

Taziyah.

Sh?iah--Customs and practices

Electronic books.--local

Number

Class number

Howarth, Toby M

MyiLibrary

Taylor & Francis

Country

ایران

Call Number

297.8,21,0954

Date and Hour of Consultation and Access

0203012607.pdf

Electronic Format Type

0

old catalog

e

BL

1

a

Y