Archive for 2015
Yemen update
According to sources in Crater Aden in the District of Aden Governorate, few days ago, Saudi led air force bombed 120-year-old Shi’a Muslim mosque in the city.
Yemen: Exclusive: 120-year-old Shi’a Muslim mosque bombed by Saudi airforce – The Muslim News
Destruction of Khoja Shia Ithna’asheri Mosque in Aden, Yemen | The World Federation of KSIMC
- July 20, 2015
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Al-Mahdi Institute Quarterly Update (April 2015 – June 2015)
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- July 16, 2015
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Amelies: The Shia of Lebanon
In this film we investigate how Shi’ism reached the shores Lebanon, how have the Shi’a community adapted within a foray of different religious beliefs and political environments, what contributions have they offered to the grander Shi’a world and where do they stand today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TX7kz7BRGE
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- July 15, 2015
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Shii News – “From Haridâs to ‘Alîdâs” (Tokyo, 1.5.15)
Lecture of Dr.Iqbal Surani, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
“From Haridâs to ‘Alîdâs”
Date and Time 17:00-19:00, 1st May, 2015
Venue: Hongo Satellite Office, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo
Abstract
Je koi âvse satpanth dharam mân, te hoche harina dâs, gur shams kahe
tche re ma,
Guru Shams says: Whoever will join the religion of Satpanth will be the
servant of Hari [g.21:18]
Jene râkhio tche dradh visvâs, te to hose alî na dâs; je koi gâye ‘Alî
na dâs, te to pâmase vaikuntha vâs,
Whoever has kept a strong faith will be the servant of ‘Alî ; if any
servant of ‘Alî sings will attain the abode of Vaikuntha (Heaven of Lord
Vishnu) [g.28 :9 ; 10].
The figure of the Imâm is central in Shi‘ism, particularly for the Khoja
Ismailis, for whom the Imâm is physically present in the person of Shâh
Karîm al-Husaynî, Aga Khan IV. He is considered as the 49th Imâm
descendant of the Prophet Muhammad from his daughter Fâtima and his
cousin and son in law ‘Alî (d. 661). As an emblematic and historical
figure, the Imâm has received two heritages: One is that of Abrahamic
tradition vested by the interpretation of the Qur’an, and the other is
that of Hindu tradition, which is presented in the devotional texts of
ginân and du‘a as the 10th avatâr of Vishnu.
Through an analysis of two ginân and of some selected verses of Kalâm-i
Maulâ which are examples of the devotional literature of the community
we shall try to understand the construction of religious identity of the
Khoja Shi‘i Imâmî Ismailis in South Asia.
- April 14, 2015
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- April 14, 2015
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Publication – The City in the Muslim World: Depictions by Western Travel Writers
The City in the Muslim World: Depictions by Western Travel Writers (Routledge, 2015).
Presenting a critical perspective on the cultural interactions between the “East” and the “West”, this book questions the role of travel in the production of knowledge and in the construction of the idea of the Islamic city. This volume brings together authors from various disciplines, questioning the role of Western travel writing in the production of knowledge about the East, particularly focusing on the cities of the Muslim world.
Title: The City in the Muslim World: Depictions by Western Travel Writers
Editors: Mohammad Gharipour and Nilay Ozlu
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN13: 9781138842625
Number of pages: 312
Introduction 1 Mobile Urbanism: Tent Cities in Medieval Travel Writing Mohammad Gharipour and Manu Sobti 2 Understanding the City Through Traveller’s Tales: Cairo as Seen and Experienced by Two Fourteenth-Century Italians Felicity Ratte 3 Where Is the Greatest City in the East? The Mughal City of Lahore in European Travel Accounts (1556–1648) Mehreen Chida-Razvi 4 The Image of the City: Public Baths and Urban Space in Western Travellers’ Descriptions of Ottoman Sofia Stefan Peychev 5 Cultural Encounters between Europeans and Arabs: Carsten Niebuhr’s Reflections on Cities of the Islamic World (1761–1767) Jørgen Mikkelsen 6 Western Eyes on Jannina: Foreign Narratives of a City Recorded in Texts and Images (1788–1822) Renia Paxinou 7 Single P(a)lace, Multiple Narratives: The Topkapi Palace in Western Travel Accounts from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century Nilay Özlü 8 Tensions and Interactions: Muslim, Christian and Jewish Towns in Palestine Through European Travellers’ Accounts (Eighteenth–Twentieth Century) Valérie Géonet 9 In and Out of the Frame: Finnish Painters Discovering Tunisia Marie-Sophie Lundström 10 “The Orient Veneered in the Occident”: Naserid Tehran in the Eyes of European Travellers Mohammad R. Shirazi 11 No Place for a Tourist: Imagining Fez in the Burton Holmes Travelogue Michelle Craig 12 Turkey’s Challenge to the Occident: British Views of Republican Ankara Davide Deriu
2. French Travel Writing in the Ottoman Empire
Marseilles to Constantinople, 1650-1700
By Michele Longino
Routledge – 2015 – 180 pages
978-1-13-882265-8
Examining the history of the French experience of the Ottoman world and Turkey, this comparative study visits the accounts of early modern travelers for the insights they bring to the field of travel writing. The journals of contemporaries Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Jean Thévenot, Laurent D’Arvieux, Guillaume-Joseph Grelot, Jean Chardin, and Antoine Galland reveal a rich corpus of political, social, and cultural elements relating to the Ottoman Empire at the time, enabling an appreciation of the diverse shapes that travel narratives can take at a distinct historical juncture. Longino examines how these writers construct themselves as authors, characters, and individuals in keeping with the central human project of individuation in the early modern era, also marking the differences that define each of these travelers – the shopper, the envoy, the voyeur, the arriviste, the ethnographer, the merchant. She shows how these narratives complicate and alter political and cultural paradigms in the fields of Mediterranean studies, 17th-century French studies, and cultural studies, arguing for their importance in the canon of early modern narrative forms, and specifically travel writing. The first study to examine these travel journals and writers together, this book will be of interest to a range of scholars covering travel writing, French literature, and history.
Introduction 1. The Jeweler / Voyeur. Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1689) 2. The Tourist / Ethnographer. Jean Thévenot (1633-1667) 3. The Arriviste / Envoy. Laurent D’Arvieux (1635-1702) 4. The Conquering Artist. Guillaume-Joseph Grelot (1638 – ?) 5. The English Frenchman.. Jean Chardin (1643-1712) 6. The Reluctant Diarist. Antoine Galland (1646-1715) Conclusion
3. Seoul National University – Assistant Professor, West Asian Studies
(Modern Iran)
- April 14, 2015
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