...Mangol Bayat An Introduction to Shi'i Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism . By Moojan Momen . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1985 . xxii, 397 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 574 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES sitions...

...Gregory C. Kozlowski Religious Performance in Contemporary Islam: Shi'i Devotional Rituals in South Asia . By Vernon James Schubel . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1993 . xv, 198 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996...

... as it is provocative in its specific details. We can only look forward to the future work necessary to fill in the picture sketched here in such bold strokes. ALAN SPONBERG Stanford University An Introduction to Shi'i Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism. By MOOJAN M O M E N . New Haven: Yale University...

... of the ulama in Qajar Iran, he merely reiterates Ann Lambton Hamid Algar Nikki Keddie's debatable view of the Shi'i leaders' oppositional stand to the state as "a force capable of shaping national policy" (p. 138). Moreover, he interprets the religious pronouncement of the mujtahed Shaikh Ja'far Kashifu'l...

... is revered by Hindus and Muslims—Sunnis and Shi'is—in ways that map the story of Karbala and the martyrdom of the Shi'i hero Husayn onto the local geography of South India. This surprising merger is even more striking given that the largest number of devotees are village Hindus, for whom clear boundaries...

... the identity of these “Guptī” followers, the imam replied, “I consider them Shī‘ī Imāmī Ismailis; by caste they are Hindus.” 1 In his judgment in the case in 1908, Justice Coram Russel shed more light on the existence and identity of the Guptīs: Three witnesses were called before me who belong to what...

... of a modern “Shi‘i International” (Mallat 1993 ) since the 1960s. Also, given the poverty and gross neglect by state institutions that shapes the lives of most Muslims in Mumbai, including Twelver Shi‘ites, many have become reliant on Shi‘ite institutions for coping with the challenges of everyday life...

... near Hamadan. He called himself and ideas have been transmitted at second- a Sunni but was raised a Shi'i. As a young or third-hand, or that they have been subjected man he spent some time in India, on the eve to little serious or sustained criticism. In the of the mutiny, and this, his first sight...

... uses aspects of Ali's story—his upbringing in a progressive Sunni home with a Shi'i mother, his childhood interactions with a South Indian ayah , his journalistic assignments and connections with dispersed family members, his love affair with a cosmopolitan girl from Lahore, etc.—as framing devices...

... Y and R. S C O T T APPLEBY. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1991872 pp. $40.00. This work attempts to deal with contemporary religious developments around the globe, including but not limited to North and Latin American protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Sunni and Shi'i Islam...

... Confucian religion as a vehicle (Charles Coppel); and a description and cultural history of a Shi'i ritual as practiced on Sumatra's West Coast (Margaret Kartomi). Of the particularistic essays, the one by Alisa G. Thomson Zainu'ddin stands out for acknowledging the way historical facts change...

... near Hamadan. He called himself and ideas have been transmitted at second- a Sunni but was raised a Shi'i. As a young or third-hand, or that they have been subjected man he spent some time in India, on the eve to little serious or sustained criticism. In the of the mutiny, and this, his first sight...

... Y and R. S C O T T APPLEBY. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1991872 pp. $40.00. This work attempts to deal with contemporary religious developments around the globe, including but not limited to North and Latin American protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Sunni and Shi'i Islam...

... to predominantly Muslim audiences. Finally, one may note here that a few items in the glossary are inaccurate or need better explanation (e.g., CA1I was a cousin of the Prophet Muhammad not his nephew; Yazld represents the archetypal sinner particularly for Shi'i Muslims and not the entire Muslim community, etc...

... and Allegiance" (University of Virginia, 1986), published subsequently as a larger revised study entitled, Religious Performance in Contemporary Islam: Shi'i Devotional Rituals in South Asia (Columbia, S.C.: 1993). The second part of the volume focuses on the rich and varied culture of ritual piety and behavior...

... is vividly seen in the motley crews manning the ships that plied the Indian Ocean. We learn of one ship sailing from Bengal to Basra in 1748 that included a French captain, a Shi'i Muslim master, a Dutch pilot, a Portuguese-Indian pilot, a first mate born in France, a second mate who was half-French and half...

... and insecure are in marked contrast to the kind of violence-laden ‘self-annihilation’ demanded of young people by the more extreme forms of Sunni and Shi'i Islam” (269). Levine acknowledges that metal is about anger and violence, but also so much more, as it supports the creation of an identity distinct from...

... Studies on the Sources of East Asian Law [PHILIP C. BROWN] MOMEN, An Introduction to Shi'i Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism [MANGOL BAYAT] NAKAMURA, A Comparative History of Ideas [FRANK E. REYNOLDS] OSHIMA, Economic Growth in Monsoon Asia [MICHAEL T. SKULLY] OTSUKA, RANIS...

... corrupted by the addition of material acceptable to Shi'i audiences and the excision of passages reflecting the Sunni orientation of the original texts. According to one informant, the solution the Muslim students arrived at was for those who could read Arabic to translate sections of the original Arabic...

... . “The Fatawa of Condemnation.” In Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and Their Fatawa , ed. Mohammad Khalid Masud , Brinkley Messick , and Powers David S. . Cambridge : Harvard University Press . Zaman Muhammad Qasim . 1998 . “ Sectarianism in Pakistan: The Radicalization of Shi'i...