The Twelver Shi'a as a Muslim Minority in India: Pulpit of Tears

ISBN-13: 9780415664097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 218 str.

Toby M. Howarth

Opis

'The Twelver Shia as a Muslim Minority in India' is a survey which presents the Indian mourning gathering and explains the history of this extraordinary phenomenon.

Recenzje

'Howarth's lucid and well-researched work makes an important contribution to our understanding of the interplay between religion, rituals, and culture in the commemoration of Shii rituals in India.' - Liyakat Takim, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70 Number 2, 2007

Spis treści

An Introduction to the Shîa and the Events Surrounding the Battle of Karbala  Part 1: Context  1. From Karbala to India: A History of Shi'i Preaching  2. The Shîa of Hyderabad and their Mourning Gatherings  Part 2: Sermons  3. The Description of a Complete Mourning Gathering (Including the Text of Sermon 1)  4. Sermons by Male ‘Lay’ Preachers  6. Sermons by Religious Scholars  Part 3: Analysis  7. What the Sermons Do and How They Do It  8. Indian Shi'i Preaching as the Expression of a Minority Islamic Religious Identity

O autorze

Toby Howarth is currently Vice Principal of Crowther hall, at Selly Oak in Birmingham. A graduate of Yale University, Birmingham University and the Free University of Amsterdam, he has studied and worked in Birmingham, Oxford, Uganda, Egypt, Jerusalem, India, and the Netherlands. He speaks and writes widely in the field of Muslim-Christian relations.