Book contents
- Forntmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- The Contributors
- Glossary
- Introduction
- 1 ‘My Homeland is Husayn’: Transnationalism and Multilocality in Shi‘a Contexts
- Part I Localising Global Shi‘a Minority Spaces
- 2 Performing Shi‘ism between Java and Qom: Education and Rituals
- 3 Mi corazón late Husayn: Identity, Politics and Religion in a Shi‘a Community in Buenos Aires
- 4 Bektashism as a Model and Metaphor for ‘Balkan Islam’
- 5 Living Najaf in London: Diaspora, Identity and the Sectarianisation of the Iraqi-Shi‘a Subject
- Part II Transnational Shi‘a Trajectories
- 6 Global Networks, Local Concerns: Investigating the Impact of Emerging Technologies on Shi‘a Religious Leaders and Constituencies
- 7 ‘Still We Long for Zaynab’: South Asian Shi‘ites and Transnational Homelands under Attack
- 8 From a Marginalised Religious Community in Iran to a Government-sanctioned Public Interest Foundation in Paris – Remarks on the ‘Ostad Elahi Foundation’
- Part III ‘Alid Piety and the Fluidity of Sectarian Boundaries
- 9 Ideas in Motion: The Transmission of Shi‘a Knowledge in Sri Lanka
- 10 Limits of Sectarianism: Shi‘ism and ahl al-bayt Islam among Turkish Migrant Communities in Germany
- 11 ‘For ‘Ali is Our Ancestor’: Cham Sayyids’ Shi‘a Trajectories from Cambodia to Iran
- Epilogue
- 12 Shi‘a Cosmopolitanisms and Conversions
- Notes
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 October 2020
Book contents
- Forntmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- The Contributors
- Glossary
- Introduction
- 1 ‘My Homeland is Husayn’: Transnationalism and Multilocality in Shi‘a Contexts
- Part I Localising Global Shi‘a Minority Spaces
- 2 Performing Shi‘ism between Java and Qom: Education and Rituals
- 3 Mi corazón late Husayn: Identity, Politics and Religion in a Shi‘a Community in Buenos Aires
- 4 Bektashism as a Model and Metaphor for ‘Balkan Islam’
- 5 Living Najaf in London: Diaspora, Identity and the Sectarianisation of the Iraqi-Shi‘a Subject
- Part II Transnational Shi‘a Trajectories
- 6 Global Networks, Local Concerns: Investigating the Impact of Emerging Technologies on Shi‘a Religious Leaders and Constituencies
- 7 ‘Still We Long for Zaynab’: South Asian Shi‘ites and Transnational Homelands under Attack
- 8 From a Marginalised Religious Community in Iran to a Government-sanctioned Public Interest Foundation in Paris – Remarks on the ‘Ostad Elahi Foundation’
- Part III ‘Alid Piety and the Fluidity of Sectarian Boundaries
- 9 Ideas in Motion: The Transmission of Shi‘a Knowledge in Sri Lanka
- 10 Limits of Sectarianism: Shi‘ism and ahl al-bayt Islam among Turkish Migrant Communities in Germany
- 11 ‘For ‘Ali is Our Ancestor’: Cham Sayyids’ Shi‘a Trajectories from Cambodia to Iran
- Epilogue
- 12 Shi‘a Cosmopolitanisms and Conversions
- Notes
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Shi'a Minorities in the Contemporary WorldMigration, Transnationalism and Multilocality, pp. ixPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020