Shi'i Materiality Beyond Karbala : Religion That Matters / edited by Fouad Gehad Marei, Yafa Shanneik, Christian Funke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marei, Fouad Gehad, editor.

Shanneik, Yafa, editor.

Funke, Christian, PhD, editor.

Series:

Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 179.

Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.

Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 the near and Middle East Series ; Volume 179

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shīʻah--Rituals.

Shīʻah.

Shīʻah--Customs and practices.

Material culture--Religious aspects--Islam.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill BV, [2024]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines material and multi-sensorial expressions of Shiʿi Islam in diverse, and understudied demographic and geographic contexts.It engages with conceptual debates and makes several propositions that push the frontiers of scholarship on Islamic and Religious Studies, Material Religion, Heritage Studies, and Anthropology and Sociology of Religion.The contributions presented in this volume demonstrate how material things and less thing-like materialities make the praesentia and potentia of the Sacred tangible, how they cultivate intimate relations between human and more-than-human beings, and how they act as links and gateways to the Elsewhere and Otherworldly. The volume posits that materialities of religion are integral to processes of heritagization shaped by competing social and political actors involved in the construction and canonization of religious—in this case, Shiʿi—heritage.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Figures

Notes on Editors and Contributors

Note on Transliteration

Introduction Religion That Matters: Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala

Part 1 The Visuality and Aurality of Shiʿi Materiality

Chapter 1 The Literal and the Hidden Some Bektashi Religious Materialities

Chapter 2 Mediated Devotion Sound and Media in Transnational Azeri-Turkish Twelver Shiʿism

Chapter 3 Sonic Messages Hizbullah's Mawlid an-Nabi Celebrations in Lebanon

Chapter 4 Materializing Cultural Memory From Wartime Eulogies to Panegyric Pop in Contemporary Iran

Part 2 Gendered Perspectives on Shiʿi Materiality

Chapter 5 Affective Consanguinity Blood, Mothers and Martyrs on the Battlefields of the Iran-Iraq War

Chapter 6 Zur-khane A Material Approach to the Embodiment of Twelver Shiʿi Male Virtue Ethics

Chapter 7 Khidma: In the Service of Ahl al-Bayt Gender, Agency and Social Capital in Shiʿi Religious Statue Art in Kuwait

Chapter 8 A Price for a Wife or a Token of Love? Negotiating the Materiality of Mahr in Diasporic Shiʿi Marriage

Part 3 Sacred Objects and the Materiality of Shiʿi Life-Worlds

Chapter 9 Turbat al-Husayn Development of a Tabarruk Ritual in Early Shiʿi Community

Chapter 10 The Place of Material Objects in the Alawi Ziyāra

Chapter 11 Festive Illumination, Prayers, and Grave Visitation Jashn-i Nisf Shaʿban in Kashmir

Chapter 12 Wishing Trees and Whirling Rocks Eco-material Rituals at the Alevi Shrine of Abdal Musa

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9789004691377

9004691375

OCLC:

1435751171

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004691377 DOI