TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howarth,Toby M.
TI  - The Twelver Shīʻa as a Muslim minority in India: pulpit of tears 
T2  - Routledge Persian and Shîʻî studies series
SN  - 0203012607
AV  - BP192.7.I4 H67 2005eb
U1  - 297.8/21/0954 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Shīʿah
KW  - India
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Islam
KW  - Sermons
KW  - Taʿziyah
KW  - Customs and practices
KW  - Chiisme
KW  - Inde
KW  - Coutumes et pratiques
KW  - Taʼziyè (Théâtre)
KW  - Vie religieuse
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Shi'a
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Shīʻah
KW  - Taʻziyah
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - sermons
KW  - aat
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part Part I Context -- chapter 1 From Karbala to India: a history of Shîcî preaching -- chapter 2 The Shîca of Hyderabad and their mourning gatherings -- part Part II Sermons -- chapter 3 The description of a complete mourning gathering (including the text of Sermon 1) -- chapter 4 Sermons by male 'lay' preachers -- chapter 5 Sermons by women -- chapter 6 Sermons by religious scholars -- part Part III Analysis -- chapter 7 What the sermons do and how they do it -- chapter 8 Indian Shîcî preaching as the expression of a minority Islamic religious identity
N2  - One of the most important current debates within and about Islam concerns its relation with power. Can Muslims be fundamentally content without power or as a minority? This book considers the voice of an important Muslim minority through its sermons. Indian Shi'i Muslims are a minority within a minority, constituting about ten to fifteen percent of the population as a whole, but comprising of about fifteen million people. Ten sermons are presented entirely and many more are quoted in order to analyze the preaching tradition in full. This book is the first survey to present the Indian mourning
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