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17 August

Book: The Martyrs of Karbala: Shiʻi Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran

This innovative study examines patterns of change in Shi'i symbols and rituals over the past two centuries to reveal how modernization has influenced the societal, political, and religious culture of...

17 August

Documentary: Imam Hussain: A Saga of Hope and Sacrifice

This documentary explores the early life of Hussain ibn Ali, the moral and political struggle he faced against Yazid, the tragic events of Ashura as well as the aftermath and Hussain's legacy 13 centuries later....

16 August

Article: Twelver Shia in Edinburgh: Marking Muharram, Mourning Husayn

In light of the relative dearth of scholarship on the Shia in Scotland and of their religious spaces, this article focuses on an annual ritual procession emerging out of a Twelver Shia imambargah in Edinburgh, Scotland, which situates it both within a...

16 August

The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic: Discourses in Modern Shi‘i Islam

This book deals with the minority group called Shiʻis, which today make up approximately ﬁfteen percent of Muslims. While Iran has the single largest concentration of Shi is, our analysis will include Shiʻi communities in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, India, Pakistan, and the...

15 August

Article: Dating Versions of the Karbalāʾ Story

In this paper, the writer will discuss the relative date of two important versions of the Karbala story related by Ṭabarī: one, relatively short and lacking in detail, is ascribed to Imam al-Bāqir (d. 114/732); the other, much longer and more detailed, is compiled by...

14 August

Book: Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World

Avoiding the traps of sensational political exposes and specialized scholarly Orientalism, Carl Ernst introduces readers to the profound spiritual resources of Islam while clarifying diversity and debate within the...

12 August

Article: The Image of Ḥusayn Ibn ‘Alī in “Maqātil” Literature

This research concerns the image of Husayn ibn 'All as reflected in the maqatil al-Husayn. Husayn's dramatic death inspired many Shiite poets, and from the second century of the Hijra (8th century AD), historians began to...

8 August