Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi'is and...
September, 2019
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12 September
Documentary: Imam Hussain in the Eyes of Academics
Dr. Rebecca Masterton embarks on a journey to discover the legend of Imam Hussain (pbuh) through the eyes of academia...
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7 September
Imam Hussain, the Mediator: A Structural Analysis of the Karbala Drama according to Abu Ja´far Muhammad b.Jarir al-Tabari
In this study, the Karbala Drama is regarded as a myth and the method used to analyze it is inspired by the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Lévi-Straussian structuralism has probably never before been applied to early Arabic material to...
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3 September
Book: The Shi‘a in Modern South Asia: Religion, History and Politics
The essays within this volume, all written by leading scholars of the field, explore various Shi'i communities (both Isna 'Ashari and Isma'ili) in parts of the subcontinent as diverse as Karachi, Lucknow, Bombay and...
August, 2019
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29 August
Article: Mapping Shia Muslim Communities in Europe+PDF
This article provides an introduction to the special issue on Mapping Shia Muslim Communities in Europe...
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23 August
Shi’i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa: Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal
Mara A. Leichtman, the writer of the book, offers an in-depth study of Shi‘i Islam in two very different communities in Senegal: the well-established Lebanese diaspora and Senegalese "converts" from Sunni to Shi‘i Islam of recent decades...
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8 August
Early Shi’i Thought: The Teachings of Imam Muhammad al-Baqi +PDF
Using hitherto largely ignored Shi'i sources, Arzina R. Lalani explores Imam Muhammad al-Baqir's pivotal contributions to Islamic thought in its early formative period, contributions that were powerfully to affect developments in...
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7 August
International Intensive Course on Shia Studies to be Held in Iran
Organized by the University of Religions and Denominations, the Shi’a Intensive Course endeavors to enhance scholarly attention to Shi’a Islam and offer an original and insightful understanding of its history, doctrines, and....
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4 August
Shaykh Mufid by Tamima Bayhom-Daou
The purpose of this book is to introduce the thought of an Imami Shiʻi scholar who lived and worked in Baghdad at the turn of the eleventh century and was the first of a line of scholars who helped establish a role for....
July, 2019
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19 July
Article: Multivocality in Shia Seminary
The sociological study of the Shia theological seminary is a neglected task and I should immediately add that this is not a simple task. The present research is a pioneer in this field that try to explain some hidden aspects in the Shia theological schools...
