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AMI Research Seminar by Dr Seyfeddin Kara – 14/01/2016

The Shīʿah Institute Annual Symposium 2016 – Call for Papers – The Shi’ah Institute

‘Mourning is Beautiful: Ta’ziyeh and Gender Affirmation in South Iran’, Komunikacija i kultura online, Godina VI, broj 6, 2015.

Anna Vanzan
School of Linguistic and Cultural Mediation Sciences,
University of Milan
Italy

Iranian women’s presence in Shi’i rituals was noted by travellers in pre-modern era and extensively described since the 19th century. After the Islamic Revolution, whose success was partially decided by Shi’i myths and symbols and by women’s contributions, the attention towards gender aspects of Shi’i religious ceremonies increased, and now it is discussed in numerous recent works. So far, scholars have mainly observed and described the rituals performed in the capital Tehran, with the exception of Ingvild Flaskerud whose target of research is the female community of Shiraz. However, it is South Iran that presents striking peculiarities in the way women participate in Muharram ceremonies. This paper is based on ethnographic research carried out among women performers in Muharram rituals in South Iran, in particular in the Gulf area; it shows how women, by claiming their right to perform in a public arena, are also asking to be recognized as social, cultural, historical and religious agents.

Key words: Muharram rituals and Gender; Shi’i women in South Iran; women actors in
ta’ziyeh.

For a copy of the article, contact the author: annavanzan@hotmail.com

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Contents:

EDITORIAL By Prof Oliver Scharbrodt – p.1

CISS at BRAIS 2015 By Haider Al-Khateeb – p.2

دراسة حول بحث الخمس
مؤلف: نورمان كلدار
ترجمة: السيد فاضل بحر العلوم – p.4

RATIONALITY IN SHI‘A BELIEF AND PRACTICE By Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani – p.10

OBITUARY: AL-‘ALLAMAH DR SAYYID MUHAMMED BAHR AL-‘ULUM (1347-1436 AH / 1927-2015 CE) By Sayyid Amir Bahr al-‘Ulum – p.13

العالمة الدكتور السيد محمد بحر العلوم
مقالة منتقاة من كتيب نشر عن الفقيد بمناسبة رحيله اصدرته اسرة الفقيد في النجف – p.16

Graduate students, researchers and academics are invited to submit essays, book reviews and articles to Shi‘a Studies. For more information contact: info@shiastudies.org

Wandering Worshippers: Mosque Attendance Patterns among First- and Second-Wave Iraqi-Shi’a Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, USA

The American Academy of Religion held its annual meeting in 
Atlanta, GA
, from
November 21-24, 2015

Papers of potential interest to the list include:

Mushegh Asatryan, University of Calgary
Is Ghulat Religion Islamic Gnosticism? The Shi’ite “Extremists” of
Early Islamic Iraq

Kathleen Foody, College of Charleston
Every Place is Karbala: Muslim Reflections on Cosmopolitanism,
Modernity, and Imperialism

Markus Dressler, G.ttingen University
Comparing Marginalized Alid Traditions from the Balkans to
Western Iran: Toward a New Research Agenda

Karen Ruffle, University of Toronto
Sensate Devotion: Invoking the ‘Alam in Qutb Shahi Somatic Shi’ism

Rubina Salikuddin, Harvard University
Prohibitions and Proper Etiquette: Regulating Ziyārat in the
Timurid Period

Nebil Husayn, Princeton University
When Ali Was without Equal: Tafdil Ali in Proto-Sunni Thought

Contemporary Islam Group
Theme: Forgetting the Indic for the “Islamic”: Exploring the
Development of Khōjā Caste Memory
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Marriott-International 2 (International Level)

Nargis Virani, New York, NY, Presiding

Iqbal Akhtar, University of Edinburgh
The Chronicle of Light: Khōjā Cosmology in the Periphery of Indic
Islam

Karim Gillani, University of Alberta
The Contestation of Indic Khoja Oral Literature (Ginans) as “Islamic”

Responding:
Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University

Siti Sarah Muwahidah, Emory Univesity
Everyday Peacebuilding and Sunni-Shī’i Coexistence in Indonesia

The full AAR programme is available at:
https://papers.aarweb.org/AAR_Sessions.pdf

Mohammad-Ali AMIR-MOEZZI, “Les Cinq Esprits de l’homme divin (Aspects de l’imamologie duodécimaine XIII)”, Der Islam 92.2 (2015), pp. 297-320.

Le corpus ancien du Hadith imamite contient un certain nombre de traditions sur les « cinq esprits » de l’imam. A quelques variantes près, ceux-ci sont les suivants: l’esprit saint, l’esprit de la foi, l’esprit de la puissance, l’esprit du désir et l’esprit du mouvement. « L’esprit saint » est présent dans toutes les versions. Ces traditions, concernant les membres intellectifs de l’homme divin, ne semblent pas avoir des fondements proprement islamiques ou arabes. En revanche, des traditions religieuses et spirituelles antiques et tardo-antiques peuvent nous fournir de nombreux parallèles saisissants. Dans une première partie, la « préhistoire » de la notion est étudiée. De nombreuses exégèses gnostiques et manichéennes d’Isaïe 11, 2–3 sont examinées (en particulier le logion 19 de l’Evangile selon Thomas, le Psautier copte et le traité chinois appelé « Traité Chavannes-Pelliot »). Elles concernent toutes les cinq membres de l’homme parfait surtout dans le manichéisme. La deuxième partie de l’article est consacrée aux prolongements de ces traditions (leur ancienneté dans les cercles ésotériques shiʿites imamites et ismaéliens, chez al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, dans le Umm al-kitāb et jusque dans l’apocryphe énigmatique tardif d’origine morisque appelé l’Evangile de Barnabé). L’implication majeure de ces traditions sur le plan doctrinal c’est la capacité de l’imam et de son initié de recevoir les révélations divines grâce aux facultés de « l’esprit saint » ou « l’esprit de la sainteté » (rūḥ al-quds).

Journal of Shi’a Islamic Studies new issue: Vol VIII – Issue 3