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The Twelver Shīʻa as a Muslim minority in India : pulpit of tears / Toby M. Howarth.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Persian and Shîʻî studies seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 213 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0203012607
  • 9780203012604
  • 9780415362344
  • 0415362342
  • 9786610254279
  • 6610254273
  • 1134231741
  • 9781134231744
  • 1280254270
  • 9781280254277
  • 9780415664097
  • 0415664098
  • 9781134231713
  • 1134231717
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Twelver Shīʻa as a Muslim minority in India.DDC classification:
  • 297.8/21/0954 22
LOC classification:
  • BP192.7.I4 H67 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)116860

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

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.

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.

English.