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Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs

The Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs at the Weatherhead Center undertakes advanced research on the multifaceted and diverse manifestations of Shi’ism in the contemporary world. The study of Shi’ism, religious mobilization, and the challenges of sectarian conflict is more pressing now than ever in modern history.

LUSSI Seminar: The Shi’ites and the Qurʾan: The Origins of Islam between Apocalypse and Empire

It gives us great pleasure to announce the return of the Autumn Lecture Series in Shiʿi Studies starting in October 2019 organised by the Leiden University Shiʿi Studies Initiative (LUSSI). The autumn lecture series theme for this year is: “The Qurʾan and its Shiʿi Interpretations”.

Project MUSE – Introduction: Early Modern Islamic Cities

Perhaps the most significant result of these intertwined processes was the emergence of distinct publics and public spaces in the midst of early modern European urban life. These publics and public spaces were the result of complex interactions between political authorities and communities in the context of the emergent market economies and empire- and state-building projects.

Articles on Esfahan:
‘Cookery and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan’ – Sussan Babaie
‘Discursive Images and Urban Itineraries: Literary Form and City Experience in Early Modern Iran’ – Farshid Emami

Band59 (2019): Ausgabe3-4 (Sep 2019)

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Iranian Studies

Frequency: Yearly ISSN: 0021-0862 eISSN: 1475-4819 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00210862.2019.1659660

Book Launch – “The Rebel and the Imam in Early Islam” by Najam Haider

Eventbrite – Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations presents Book Launch – “The Rebel and the Imam in Early Islam” by Najam Haider – Wednesday, 16 October 2019 at Aga Khan Centre (Room 215, 2nd floor). Find event and ticket information.

Chapter 29 of The Gnostic World, Edited By Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Jay Johnston, Routledge, 2018

This chapter focuses on the period between the emergence of a distinct Shii group identity in the early part of the eighth century in the Iraqi town of Kufa, and the period when the line of the living Imams ceased to exist, thus ushering a new period in the history of Shiism. The identity of the Shii community was mainly centered on the notion of the guiding role of the Imams, and was marked by various rituals, such as prayer and pilgrimage. The cosmological and cosmogonic accounts of the Shii hadith corpus are “numerous, disorderly, coming from diverse horizons, and at times contradictory”. With regard to the world of humans, the Shii hadith corpus articulates a starkly dualist worldview, where the believers are pure and luminous, and the unbelievers evil and dark. The dualism found in the early Shii hadith corpus is articulated much more systematically in the Ghulat writings.

The latent politicization of Alevism: the affiliation between Alevis and leftist politics (1960-1980)

1 E. J. Zürcher, Turkey A Modern History (New York: I.B. Tauris, 1994), p.266. 2 E. Aydınoğlu, Türkiye Solu 1960-1980 [ Turkish Left 1960-1980] (Istanbul: Versus, 2007), p.46. 3 K. Karpat, The Gecekondu: The Rural Migration and Urbanization (London: Cambridge University Press, 1976), p. 59. 4 M. N. Danielson, and R.

Arabic Oration: Art and Function | brill

“This erudite study is a major breakthrough in our understanding of Arabic oratory. Qutbuddin has painstakingly reconstructed this vast tradition in all its diverse guises and contexts, from the battlefield to the pulpit, from political to legislative speeches.

The book includes a large number of sermons attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib, and also several attributed to the Ahl al Bayt (Fatima Zahra, Husain, Zaynab). It also includes the sermon attributed to the Prophet Muhammad appointing Ali as his successor at Ghadir Khumm.

Creating a Diasporic Public Sphere in Britain: Twelver Shia Networks in London

Since the 1980s, the Borough of Brent, in north-west London, has been a major global hub of transnational Twelver Shiism. With the influx of Iraqi refugees, many clerical leaders of Twelver Shia Islam established their European headquarters in Brent, and, in addition to Damascus and Tehran, London became a major centre of Iraqi diaspora politics during Saddam Hussein’s regime.