Tag Archives: Shia Rituals

The episode of Karbala’ became the everlasting stage on which, more than anything else, the great spirit of an Imam of the Ahl al-Bayt was put for eternal display, not in mere words or traditions recorded in books, but against the background of the greatest tragedy in human history and scenes of love and...

The aim of this study is to understand how authenticity is evoked in a religious pilgrimage and the relationship between authenticity, rituals and...

In 1978-79, in the course of a massive urban revolution with several million participants, the Iranian people toppled the government of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (r. 1941-79), who had pursued an...

This paper offers a study on the increasing digitization of Shiʿi Muslim rituals of Arbaʿin, observed on the fortieth day after the martyrdom of Husayn, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, at the battlefield of Karbala, Iraq; his shrine here is visited by....

Through their performances of mourning rites, Shi’a Mohajerin (emigrants from India) Muslim women in Peshawar, Pakistan practiced an oblique,undeclared contestation against their subordinate position in a...

Fāṭimiyah begins on the 13th day of Jumada al-Awwal until the 3rd of Jumada al-Thani, which is off and the peak of the mourning would be on that day. The great Shitte authorities such as Mirza Naeeni and the late Akhund Khorasani had paid a....

The edited volume "Beyond Karbala: New Approaches to Shiʿi Materiality" (working title) seeks out to explore materially expressed Shiism, with a renewed focus on non-ʿAshūrāʾ rituals, practices and objects...

All Maraj' (Shia Scholars) support Azadari and consider it to be a corner stone of Shia Islam .Some anti-Islam ,internal and external forces present the Fatawa (verdicts) and opinions of Maraji' Izam (Shia Scholars) with distortion and...

This book probes into the historical evolution, in form and content, of Ashura Rituals and reveals the three major stages through which Ashura rituals have passed...

Sunday marks the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Reza, the 8th Imam of Shias, who is buried in Iranian north-eastern city of Mashhad...