The Visitation of the Shrines of the Imams and the Shi'i Mujtahids in the Early Twentieth Century

Nakash, Yitzhak

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“…The traffic that Iranian pilgrims have generated along the route to Sayyida Zainab is characterized as a dynamically networked geography across imperial and later national borders. The practice of ziyarat dates back to the ninth century (Yitshak 1995: 154). With its emergence came theological debates about its permissibility, but it was not until the mid‐sixteenth century, when the Ottoman and Safavid Empires were negotiating their first treaty, that pilgrimage routes became intimately tied to political contestation 9.…”

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“…99The value attached to the visitation of Imam Husayn's tomb in Karbala is apparent in a citation attributed to the sixth Imam, Jaʿfar al‐Sadiq, which states, ‘whoever visits Husayn's tomb on ‘Ashura is like one who performs pilgrimage to God's seat’. As Yitshak notes, the connection between the distinctly Shiʿi institution of the Imamate, on the one hand, and visitation, on the other, lies at the heart of that regional history of doctrinal differentiation (1995: 157).…”

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Zainab's traffic: spatial lives of an Islamic ritual across Southwest Asia

Yıldız

2023

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Since the 1979 Revolution, Iranian pilgrims have engaged in saint visitation (ziyarat) to sites in Syria. By travelling via Turkey on buses, and venerating Sayyida Zainab at their destination, these pilgrims disrupt conventional conceptions of not only Islamic ritual, but also Iranian mobility under sanctions. Their experiences venerating Sayyida Zainab – emerging out of a self‐described ‘poverty of mobility’ – demonstrate the utility of a more expansive conceptualization of ritual in anthropology. Instead of taking ritual for a scripturally canonized ‘manual for’ pious self‐cultivation, here I approach ziyarat as a traffic of pilgrims, goods, and ideas across Iran, Turkey, and Syria. This approach produces a dynamic and spatial conception of ziyarat as a ritual of mobility. Ethnographic attention to these pilgrims’ politically conditioned and regionally networked spatial practices reveals that their movements are irreducible to ethical projects of cultivating piety alone. What is at stake in Iranian pilgrims’ movements is nothing short of the extra‐religious conditions of religion – those of the economy and the polity. These stakes illuminate how religious practices interarticulate with political and social institutions – including bazaars, borders, and shrines – that remain understudied in recent anthropological scholarship on Islamic piety.

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2023

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…While the concept of othering is said to go back to the master-slave dialectic of the German philosopher Hegel, it has taken a post-colonial turn through the writings of Gayatri Spivak (1985) and in Edward Said's book Orientalism (1978/ 1995. By analysing the Western perception of the 'East' or the 'Orient', they determined that a discursive construction of the other as inferior dominates both fictional and non-fictional writing, reinforcing a societal discourse of superiority in the Western hemisphere.…”

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The MENA Region and COVID-19

Hobaika¹,

Möller²,

Völkel³

2022

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Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which comprises some of the world's richest countries next to some of the poorest, this book offers excellent insights into the discriminatory consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.With a geographic focus on the MENA region, the multidisciplinary case studies collected in this edited volume reveal that the coronavirus's impact patterns are a question of two variables: governance performance and socioeconomic potency. Given the global, unprecedented, complex and systemic nature of COVID-19 -and its long-term implications for societies, governments, international organisations, citizens and corporations -this volume entails a relevance to regions undergoing similar dynamics. Analyses in the book, therefore, have implications for the comparative study of the pandemic and its impact on societies around the globe. Understanding related dynamics and implications, and making use of lessons learned, are a pathway to deal with future similar crises.Questions covered in the volume are relevant to geopolitics, social challenges and the relations between political leaders and citizens as beings embedded in various strategies of communication. The volume will appeal to scholars of international politics, political science, risk or crisis governance, economics and sociology, human rights and security, political communication and public health.Zeina Hobaika is a biochemist, holder of a PhD in Structure, Function and Proteins Engineering from Denis Diderot University and an Executive Diploma in Management and Conduct of Strategic Projects from Sciences Po in Paris. Today, she is an associate professor and serves as the head of department of Life and Earth Sciences-Biochemistry, at the Faculty of Sciences at Saint Joseph University of Beirut. She is also head of the Macromolecules Structure and Interactions Research Team. Her main research interests cover rational drug design to contribute to fighting diseases such as AIDS, cancer and Alzheimer's. Another major project she is working on consists of the management and valorisation of agro-industrial byproducts and waste, for a sustainable future. She has been selected for various national and international prizes and awards. In 2017, she became a member of the prestigious Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). Last, with a large publication record and one patent, Zeina is involved in a variety of projects with the public and private sector.

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“…Sites of pilgrimage include mosques, gravesites, battlefields, and mountains and caves associated with Islamic history and hagiography. The term also refers to forms of supplication made by Muslims, in which they send their salutations to venerated Islamic figures(Nakash 1995).…”

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Lamenting Karbala in Europe: Husayni Liturgy and Discourses of Dissent amongst Diasporic Bahraini and Lebanese Shiis

Marei

Shanneik

2021

Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations

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The presence of Shii communities in Europe is increasingly felt, especially as they establish independent religious and social infrastructures. Supporters of different Shii-Islamist political parties have established transnational links connecting diasporic communities with their countries of origin. These links have shaped and been shaped by religious, political and social dynamics in the Middle East. This article examines how lamentation poetry performed in Shii ritual gatherings is used to articulate political dissent among diasporic communities. The lachrymal expressions and descriptions that characterize Shii lamentation poetry have the ritualistic function of metaphorically identifying participants with Imam Husayn and his cause. Organizers of these gatherings, however, use lamentation poetry to narrate and give meaning to geopolitical developments in the Middle East, especially since the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003. This article constitutes the first attempt to examine the political contextualization of Shii lamentation poetry, embedded within the political discourses of two Shii Islamist parties, the al-Wefaq Movement in Bahrain and Hizbullah in Lebanon. Unlike other studies on Shii ritual practices, it is informed by a 2 multi-sited ethnographic study of female-only and male-dominated ritual spaces in the

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The Visitation of the Shrines of the Imams and the Shi'i Mujtahids in the Early Twentieth Century

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Zainab's traffic: spatial lives of an Islamic ritual across Southwest Asia

Zainab's traffic: spatial lives of an Islamic ritual across Southwest Asia

The MENA Region and COVID-19

Lamenting Karbala in Europe: Husayni Liturgy and Discourses of Dissent amongst Diasporic Bahraini and Lebanese Shiis

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