Introducing: Studies in Shiʿi Materiality
Series editors: Karen Ruffle, University of Toronto & Babak Rahimi, University of California, San Diego
This new, interdisciplinary book series is the first dedicated to material practices, ritual, embodiment and the sensorium in Shiʿism, seeking to understand Islamic practices in everyday contexts from a broad historical and theoretical perspective.
> Focuses on lived Shiʿism as a lived tradition that is multiplex and creative rather than singular in expression
> Engages with all periods of history
> Features studies of Shiʿi communities including Ithna ʿAshari, Ismaʿili (Nizari and Tayyibi), Zaydi, Druze, Bektashi, Alevi, Nusayri, and ʿAlid traditions including Sufism
> Covers Shiʿi and ʿAlid traditions in South, Central and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Turkey, the Caucasus, Africa, Europe, North America and Australia
> Encourages interdisciplinary approaches and methods
