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Being a young British Iraqi Shii in London: exploring diasporic cultural and religious identities between Britain and Iraq

Relying on an ethnographic research conducted both in the UK and Iraq, this article explores issues of cultural and religious identities among London-based young British Iraqi Shiis. Using Stuart Hall’s notions of ‘articulation’ and ‘new ethnicities’, I analyse how different realities and experiences of space and class shape young British Iraqi Shiis self-identification in relation to socio-political, religious and ethnic belongings.

Building the Caliphate

Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture Jennifer A. Pruitt View Inside Price: $65.00 216 pages, 8 x 10 71 color + 18 b/w illus.

Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿĀmilī’s draft letter to his teacher: The culture of scholarly correspondence and the Islamic republic of letters in the sixteenth century | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies | Cambridge Core

This study focuses on a draft letter by Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿĀmilī (d. 984/1576) for his teacher Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (d. 965/1558); both were prominent Twelver Shiite jurists from the region of Jabal ʿĀmil in what is now Lebanon. Yūsuf Ṭabājah, who first published the text, argued that Ḥusayn wrote the letter while he was in Iraq c.

Shiite Patterns of Post-Migration in Europe

This brief reflection treats the reactive relation between the dispersions of (post-)migration and the integralism of religion in selected cases of European Shiism. It reconsiders reports on Twelver Shiism and Shiite Muslims in Europe in order to discern the main institutional and demographic tendencies in Shiites’ European settlement history in Britain, France and Germany, and to explore such settlement in light of mega-theorizations of European Islam that juxtapose ‘integration’ and ‘separation’.

Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900

Dedication Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and Translation List of Maps, Figures and Illustrations Contents Introduction Chapter 1. Remembering Iran, Forgetting the Persianate: Persian Literary Historiography of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Afghan Legacy The Rise of the Durrani State and Bidilism South Asian Stagnation The ‘New Munshi’ and Transition to English B.

The Curious Addition of Non-Religious Characters to The Martyrdom of Imam Husain

The rule of the Qajar dynasty was a vibrant period for the Iranian taʿziyeh tradition; the genre’s anonymous dramatists not only developed the verse of the central plays of the Karbala cycle but innovated new narrative content. This study investigates one such innovation, the curious appearance of two new characters in the climactic play The Martyrdom of Imam Husain.

Political Quietism in Islam

In recent years, Islam – whether via the derivatives of ‘Political Islam’ or ‘Islamism’ – has come to be seen as an ‘activist’ force in social and political spheres worldwide. What such representations have neglected is the strong countervailing tradition of political quietism.

Beyond sectarianism: Intermarriage and social difference in Lebanon | International Journal of Middle East Studies | Cambridge Core

Based on interviews with Lebanese in over 150 mixed-religion marriages and their extended family members, I argue that sect may conceal or stand in for other forms of difference, including ideas about status and hierarchy related to class and regional origin in Lebanon.

189 | janvier-mars 2020 Religions en Iran

La religion officielle et l’idéologie politique prônées par la République islamique d’Iran depuis la révolution de 1979 ont produit un large répertoire d’idées et de pratiques religieuses. Cependant, au-delà de l’uniformité apparente des représentations qui en sont données se dessine une pluralité de faits religieux.

The Shīʿīs in Palestine

Preface List of Figures and Tables Note on Translations, Dates, and Transliteration Introduction  Medieval and Modern Palestine 1 From Immigration to the Golden Age  1 The First Shīʿīs in Palestine  2 Palestine under Shīʿī Rule  3 Giving Palestine a Shīʿī Identity: Tombs of the ahl al-bayt  4 Ibn al-ʿArabī and the Shīʿīs of Tiberias