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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Alternative historiesPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (xix, 324 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474430395
  • 1474430392
  • 9781474430401
  • 1474430406
  • 1474464890
  • 9781474464895
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shi'a minorities in the contemporary world.DDC classification:
  • 305.69782 23
LOC classification:
  • BP193.5 .S55 2020eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • LB 46000
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Contents:
1. "My homeland is Husayn" : transnationalism and multilocality in Shiʻa contexts / Oliver Scharbrodt and Yafa Shanneik -- 2. Performing Shiʻism between Java and Qom : education and rituals / Chiara Formichi -- 3. Mi corazón late Husayn : identity, politics and religion in a Shiʻa 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-Shiʻa subject / Emanuelle Degli Esposti -- 6. Global networks, local concerns : investigating the impact of emerging technologies on Shiʻa religious leaders and constituencies / Robert J. Riggs -- 7. "Still we long for Zaynab" : South Asian Shiʻites 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 -- 9. Ideas in motion : the transmission of Shiʻa knowledge in Sri Lanka / Harun Rasiah -- 10. Limits of sectarianism : Shiʻism and ahl al-bayt Islam among Turkish migrant communities in Germany / Benjamin Weineck -- 11. "For 'Ali is our ancestor" : Cham Sayyids' Shiʻa trajectories from Cambodia to Iran / Emiko Stock -- 12. Shiʻa cosmopolitanisms and conversions / Mara A. Leichtman.
Summary: Global migration flows in the 20th century have seen the emergence of Muslim diaspora and minority communities in Europe, North America and other parts of the world. This book offers a set of new comparative perspectives on the experiences of Shi'a Muslim minorities outside the so-called Muslim heartland (Middle East, North Africa, Central and South Asia). It looks at Shiʻa minority communities in Europe, North and South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia and discusses the particular challenges these communities face as "a minority within a minority"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. "My homeland is Husayn" : transnationalism and multilocality in Shiʻa contexts / Oliver Scharbrodt and Yafa Shanneik -- 2. Performing Shiʻism between Java and Qom : education and rituals / Chiara Formichi -- 3. Mi corazón late Husayn : identity, politics and religion in a Shiʻa 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-Shiʻa subject / Emanuelle Degli Esposti -- 6. Global networks, local concerns : investigating the impact of emerging technologies on Shiʻa religious leaders and constituencies / Robert J. Riggs -- 7. "Still we long for Zaynab" : South Asian Shiʻites 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 -- 9. Ideas in motion : the transmission of Shiʻa knowledge in Sri Lanka / Harun Rasiah -- 10. Limits of sectarianism : Shiʻism and ahl al-bayt Islam among Turkish migrant communities in Germany / Benjamin Weineck -- 11. "For 'Ali is our ancestor" : Cham Sayyids' Shiʻa trajectories from Cambodia to Iran / Emiko Stock -- 12. Shiʻa cosmopolitanisms and conversions / Mara A. Leichtman.

Global migration flows in the 20th century have seen the emergence of Muslim diaspora and minority communities in Europe, North America and other parts of the world. This book offers a set of new comparative perspectives on the experiences of Shi'a Muslim minorities outside the so-called Muslim heartland (Middle East, North Africa, Central and South Asia). It looks at Shiʻa minority communities in Europe, North and South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia and discusses the particular challenges these communities face as "a minority within a minority"-- Provided by publisher

Oliver Scharbrodt is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Chester. He is the author of Islam and the Bahai Faith: A Comparative Study of Muhammad Abduh and Abdul-Baha Abbas (London and New York: Routledge, 2008) and editor of the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe (Leiden: Brill). Yafa Shanneik is Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Birmingham. She researches the dynamics and trajectories of gender in Islam within the context of contemporary diasporic and transnational Muslim women's spaces.

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