Muslims, Media and Mobility in the Indian Ocean Region

Mirza, Shireen; Jones, Justin; Qasmi, Ali Usman

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“…In India and Pakistan, the practices usually associated with azadari are led by groups known in Lahore as matami anjuman (mourning unions or associations), who also engage in charitable work, provide a sense of corporate identity, and amplify the piety of their community. It is common for such religious mobilizations to deploy the circulation of media as a way of blending religious activism and entertainment (Eisenlohr 2015; Mirza 2015) at the same time as building on established traditions of Shi‘i disclosure and publicity. As Tahir Jafri mentioned, the pious labour associated with the Shi‘i marketplace media trader has coalesced with the work of Shi‘i mourning associations to form what for the sake of brevity will be described as ‘ azadari networks’, to borrow the term used by both Jafri and the Facebook page (240k followers) administered in Pakistan by Afaq Haider Khan and Shafqat Hussain.…”

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‘Live has an atmosphere of its own’: azadari, ethical orientation, and tuned presence in Shi‘i media praxis

Cooper

2022

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Among producers of Shi‘i Islamic media in Pakistan, the quality of being live as an atmosphere capable of mediation has gained efficacy along with changes in media for religious dispensation. Central to the importance of live recordings are the ways they are perceived to most effectively mediate the ethical, ritual, and transhistorical contours of azadari, a word that describes the ways in which the personages held in esteem by the Shi‘a are mourned and commemorated. What are these qualities of being live that see recordings attributed the qualities of a good, moral atmosphere? By building on ethnographic research into the relationship between Shi‘i practices of azadari and their technological mediation, this article aims to provide greater insights into what atmosphere can do for anthropology, with the suggestion that it acts as a way of recognizing different thresholds of intensity and change.

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Section: Azadari Network and Tuned Presencementioning

confidence: 99%

‘Live has an atmosphere of its own’: azadari, ethical orientation, and tuned presence in Shi‘i media praxis

Cooper

2022

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Using the Past and Bridging the Gap: Premodern Islamic Legal Texts in New Media

Kooria¹

2018

Law hist. rev.

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This article analyses the internal dynamics of online Islamic legal discourses embedded in their offline and multimedia contexts that use of a rich repository of legal texts composed over a period of about a thousand years. Through their vigorous and spirited engagements with these historical texts, contemporary Islamic jurists simultaneously create new digital platforms in mass and social media to disseminate their ideas. In so doing, they perpetuate a long textual legal tradition through hypertext commentaries and super-commentaries. The premodern texts are thus reborn through new forms of ḥāshiyas such as audio commentaries, video commentaries, audio-video commentaries and hypertext commentaries. These new developments from the age of new media contribute to the textual longue-durée of Islamic law. Tracking the peregrinations of three Islamic legal texts in the mass media and cyber world, I argue that the dissemination of premodern Islamic legal texts via cyber space has resulted in the “democratization” of a knowledge-system that was previously dominated by trained fuqahā and affiliated institutional structures and has enlivened the traditional school affiliations.

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Muslims, Media and Mobility in the Indian Ocean Region

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‘Live has an atmosphere of its own’: azadari, ethical orientation, and tuned presence in Shi‘i media praxis

‘Live has an atmosphere of its own’: azadari, ethical orientation, and tuned presence in Shi‘i media praxis

Using the Past and Bridging the Gap: Premodern Islamic Legal Texts in New Media

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