Shi'a minorities in the contemporary world : migration, transnationalism and multilocality / edited by Oliver Scharbrodt and Yafa Shanneik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scharbrodt, Oliver, 1976- editor.

Shanneik, Yafa, editor.

Series:

Alternative historie.

Alternative histories : narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shiites--Social conditions.

Shiites.

Muslims--Non-Islamic countries.

Muslims.

Muslim diaspora.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 324 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Offers a set of new comparative perspectives on the experiences of Shi'a Muslim minorities outside the 'Muslim heartland' (Middle East, North Africa, Central and South Asia) and discusses the challenges these communities face as 'a minority within a minority'.

Contents:

Introduction

1. 'My Homeland is Husayn': Transnationalism and Multilocality in Shi'a Contexts / Oliver Scharbrodt and Yafa Shanneik

Part I: Localising Global Shi'a Minority Spaces

2. Performing Shi'ism between Java and Qom: Education and Rituals / Chiara Formichi

3. Mi corazón late Husayn: Identity, Politics and Religion in a Shi'a Community in Buenos Aires / Mari-Sol García Somoza and Mayra Soledad Valcarcel

4. Bektashism as a Model and Metaphor for 'Balkan Islam' / Piro Rexhepi

5. Living Najaf in London: Diaspora, Identity, and the Sectarianisation of the Iraqi-Shi'a Subject / Emanuelle Degli Esposti

Part II: Transnational Shi'a Trajectories

6. Global Networks, Local Concerns: Investigating the Impact of Emerging Technologies on Shi'a Religious Leaders and Constituencies / Robert J. Riggs

7. 'Still We Long for Zaynab': South Asian Shi'ites and Transnational Homelands under Attack / Noor Zehra Zaidi

8. From a Marginalised Religious Community in Iran to a Government-sanctioned Public Interest Foundation in Paris

Remarks on the 'Ostad Elahi Foundation' / Roswitha Badry

Part III: 'Alid Piety and the Fluidity of Sectarian Boundaries

9. Ideas in Motion: The Transmission of Shi'a Knowledge in Sri Lanka / Harun Rasiah

10. Limits of Sectarianism: Shi'ism and ahl al-bayt Islam among Turkish Migrant Communities in Germany / Benjamin Weineck

11. 'For 'Ali is Our Ancestor': Cham Sayyids' Shi'a Trajectories from Cambodia to Iran / Emiko Stock

Epilogue: 12. Shi'a Cosmopolitanisms and Conversions / Mara A. Leichtman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).

ISBN:

1-4744-6489-0

1-4744-3039-2

OCLC:

1312727339