...Rola el-Husseini © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008   Women, Work, and Political Participation in Lebanese Shia Contemporary Thought: The Writings of Ayatollahs Fadlallah and Shams al-Din Rola el-Husseini n the decade following the Taif Agreement (1989), which...

... and martyred at the battle of Karbala in 680 CE. The mehndi ceremony, or majlis , is steadfastly observed on 7 Muharram by Hyderabadi Shias in defiance of pressures from the ulema in Iran and Iraq to eliminate practices deemed to be unauthentic and un-Islamic. Drawing on archival and ethnographic data, I argue...

...Karen G. Ruffle “The Mistress of Two Worlds” explores the ways that Fatimah al-Zahra's mystical and intercessory powers construct a temporal devotional world for the Shia. of the Deccan in south-central India, projecting individual loyalty to the imams and remembrance of their sacrifices...

...Carla Bellamy Abstract Now a town in contemporary Madhya Pradesh, the former princely state of Jaora is home to a collection of shrines known as Husain Tekri. Unlike most subcontinental Muslim memorial structures, the shrines are unaffiliated with Sufi lineages and sponsored by both Sunni and Shia...

... in Gilgit-Baltistan, the only Shia majority province in Pakistan, and the repression of Shias resulting from a Sunni-defined Islamizing agenda that has reigned supreme in Pakistan since the 1980s. 27. Puar and Rai, “Monster, Terrorist, Fag.” 28. See Bhan, Counterinsurgency , on tropes...

... this Islamizing agenda has resulted in policies members work for the local state in Gilgit — that either have outright led to Shia oppression, some in quite prominent positions. It is not such as state- backed violence by Sunni militants...

... between now and 2015. Islamic state with a Shia leadership. In some cases, Iran is clearly one of the countries that must come the state crushed the resulting ethnic insurgencies. to terms with ethnic diversity if its territorial integrity or, Currently, the state downplays factors...

... and rupture, one which signaled a major departure from, or at least refusal of, history. 14 This was not simply the activation of some dormant political Islam but rather a change in the very script of Shia thinking about the political; namely, the character and temporal possibility of sovereignty. I am...

... between the split, and Mrs. Bhutto is out of the Shias and the Sunnis. The government has country whilst Benazir Bhutto is under had to modify its zakat (tax) law, since house arrest. Shias do not have this concept...

...,” and it was a convenient means to enter Mecca, but only if they paid a “pilgrim- justify the Wahhabis’ actions. Their methods of age tax,” as Shia Muslims were compelled to do. commending right — advising Muslims to follow The Wahhabis rejected this proposition because...

... Rauf Gulab, Tehrik-i Ahl-i Hadith Ka Ta’aruf (Introduction of the Movement of the Ahl-i Hadith) (Srinagar: Islamic Publications, n.d). 95 96 scholars, they considered the Shias to be out- to openly denounce them as infi dels...

... volunteer forces. During the war, both Iran and Iraq had an opportunity to end hostilities but continued to use war to suppress internal conflicts and problems. 19 In Iran, the war was immediately associated with the Battle of Karbala, the massacre of Shia Imams, and historical injustice...

... the status of a movement, that of the Mu- madiya movement has been first and foremost a religious 47 movement, the curriculum of these educational institutions relatively large size of the Shia community and its longer included both religious...

... cultural resonance for the predominantly Shia conceptualized this struggle as “not between truth. In Shiism, it has most prominently been Iranian masses...

... parties, the Muhajir Qaumi the MQM, not only by covertly encouraging Sunni- Movement (MQM), remains embroiled in the com- Shia sectarian strife but also by assisting break-away plex political scenario of the country-a lasting leg- MQM factions (like the Haqiqis) to take on the par- acy...

..., of a ra- scholarship has established that the authors were cial and religious mixture representing the range very likely Isma’ili Shia in their personal commit- of humanity, have shipwrecked. Upon seeing the ments, the Epistles do not come across as doctri- peaceful and flourishing animals...

... of Rmeileh, home to a population of Sunnis, Shia, Druze, and Christians twenty-three miles south of Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon. The area had been in the news when a series of armed conflicts broke out between supporters of a self-proclaimed Sunni militant sheikh and supporter of the Syrian...

... when she, the ultimate Other, tion of a Muslim nation, the outcome of the has chosen to speak. It seems that PourAhmadi, fi rst Majlis, had been consistently reaffi rmed and perhaps a good number of Iranian Shia in the Friday sermons and the supreme leader’s...

... patronage in the village is landlord, and hence Shia, The Industrial Centre for women comes under its patronage. domain and is the largest project the Society handles. Apart from this it gives scholarships to students, oper...

... responses to the repetitive structure of key thinker of the Iranian Revolution, 3Ali Shari’ati, pilgrimage and the personal performance of going who sought to bring together the Shia conception on hajj. Jalala al-­e-­Ahmad, another critical thinker of the shahid, the martyr, with the Fanonian idea...