Incidents of Anti-Shiism, June 2024

The Māḥauls of Oratory: Urdu Shi`i Khiṭābat in contemporary Karachi
In this talk, I attend to the material and the historical māḥauls within which Urdu Shiʿi khiṭābat (oratory) unfolds in Karachi. My attention to these contexts aims to move beyond a solely discursive approach to public language-use, in which much of the emphasis lies on referentiality, or what do orations mean. Instead, I foreground the physical and ideological contexts of khiṭābat to lay bare the newness of practices and concepts that undergird oratorical speech-events.
Registration required
Zoom webinar:https://utoronto.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mV4_DL0DRNasaRxDpRT5uw

https://iric.org/short-film-depicting-the-massacre-of-shiites-hazaras-in-pakistan-wins-best-short-film-award-in-turkey/

PRACTICES OF DEVOTION TO THE AHL-E BAIT
AT HOME AND IN DIASPORA:
MATERIALITY, RITUAL, AND THE DIGITAL SENSES
Tuesday, May 23 2023
9:00 am – 7:00 pm
A one-day workshop co-organized by
Michel Boivin (CNRS-CESAH) and Karen Ruffle (University of Toronto)
Campus Condorcet – Bâtiment de Recherche Sud
Room 0.015 – 5 cours des Humanités – 93300 Aubervilliers
https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2023/05/Ahl-e-bait.pdf

For the text, see:
https://www.jamesmdorsey.net/post/a-battle-for-the-soul-of-islam-plays-out-in-a-bahrain-courtroom