An edition of People of the Prophet's House
(2015)
People of the Prophet's House
artisitc ritual expressions of Shi'i Islam
by Fahmida Suleman
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Congresses, Family, Shīʻah, Customs and rituals, Prayers and devotions, Shiites, Rites and ceremoniesPeople
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People of the Prophet's House: artisitc ritual expressions of Shi'i Islam
2015, Azimuth Editions in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies [and] in collaboration with the British Museum's Department of the Middle East
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Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction.
1. Shiʻi art and ritual: contexts, definitions and expressions /Fahmida Suleman and Shainool Jiwa
2. Are there Shiʻi forms of art? / Oleg Grabar
Part 2: Pilgrimage and patronage
3. The Shiʻi shrines of Iraq /James W. Allan
4. Glorifying the Imamate: architecture and ritual in the Shiʻi shrines of Syria / Yasser Tabbaa
5. Evanescent meaning: the place of Shiʻism in Fatimid mosques / Jonathan M. Bloom
6. A Shiʻi building boom in 14th-century Qum: the case of Bagh-i Sabz towers / Robert Hillenbrand
7. Pilgrims and patrons: ziyāra under the Samanids and Bavandids / Melanie Michailidis
Part 3: Inscriptions on art, architecture and coinage
8. Early Qurʼans signed by the Shiʻi Imams / Sheila R. Canby
9. Writing about faith: epigraphic evidence for the development of Twelver Shiʻism in Iran / Sheila S. Blair
10. The writing on the walls: selections from the Twelver Shiʻi epigraphs of Lucknow's Hussainabad Imambara / Hussein Keshani
11. ʻAlī walī Allāh and other non-Qurʼanic references to the Ahl al-bayt on Islamic coinage before the Saljuq period / Luke Treadwell
Part 4: Iconographic studies: Shiʻi contexts and beyond.
12. Between the past and the future: the fālnāma (book of omens) in the 16th and early 17th centuries / Masumeh Farhad
13. Exploring Ahl al-bayt imagery in Qajar Iran (1785-1925) / Maryam Ekhtiar
14. Shiʻism and contemporary Iranian art / Venetia Porter
15. Dhuʼl-faqar and the Ottomans / Zeynep Yiirekli
16. The Hand of Fatima: in search of its origins and significance / Fahmida Suleman
Part 5: Ritual expressions.
17. Lasting elegy: Shiʻi art and architecture / Peter J. Chelkowski
18. ʻArūze Qāsem - a theatrical event in Shiʻi female commemorative rituals / Ingvild Flaskerud
19. Cinema as a cultural reservoir for the Shiʻi performing art of taʻziya / Nacim Pak-Shiraz
20. Some historic taʻziyas of Multan / Tryna Lyons
21. Chirogh rawshan: Shiʻi ceremonial practised by the Ismaili communities of Xinjiang China / Amier Saidula
22. Building and performing Shiʻi Islam in Sufi Senegal: a photo essay / Mara A. Leichtman
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 266 - 269) and index.
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