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The Twelver Shīʻa as a Muslim minority in India : pulpit of tears /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Howarth, Toby M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Colección:Routledge Persian and Shîʻî studies series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.