2 PERFORMING SHI‘ISM BETWEEN JAVA AND QOM: EDUCATION AND RITUALS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. FIGURES viii
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
5. CONTRIBUTORS x
6. GLOSSARY xv
7. INTRODUCTION
8. 1 ‘MY HOMELAND IS HUSAYN’: TRANSNATIONALISM AND MULTILOCALITY IN SHI‘A CONTEXTS 1
9. PART I LOCALISING GLOBAL SHI‘A MINORITY SPACES
10. 2 PERFORMING SHI‘ISM BETWEEN JAVA AND QOM: EDUCATION AND RITUALS 31
11. 3 MI CORAZÓN LATE HUSAYN: IDENTITY, POLITICS AND RELIGION IN A SHI‘A COMMUNITY IN BUENOS AIRES 46
12. 4 BEKTASHISM AS A MODEL AND METAPHOR FOR ‘BALKAN ISLAM’ 73
13. 5 LIVING NAJAF IN LONDON: DIASPORA, IDENTITY AND THE SECTARIANISATION OF THE IRAQI-SHI‘A SUBJECT 96
14. PART II TRANSNATIONAL SHI‘A TRAJECTORIES
15. 6 GLOBAL NETWORKS, LOCAL CONCERNS: INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES ON SHI‘A RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND CONSTITUENCIES 121
16. 7 ‘STILL WE LONG FOR ZAYNAB’: SOUTH ASIAN SHI‘ITES AND TRANSNATIONAL HOMELANDS UNDER ATTACK 142
17. 8 FROM A MARGINALISED RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY IN IRAN TO A GOVERNMENT-SANCTIONED PUBLIC INTEREST FOUNDATION IN PARIS: REMARKS ON THE ‘OSTAD ELAHI FOUNDATION’ 163
18. PART III‘ALID PIETY AND THE FLUIDITY OF SECTARIAN BOUNDARIES
19. 9 IDEAS IN MOTION: THE TRANSMISSION OF SHI‘A KNOWLEDGE IN SRI LANKA 183
20. 10 LIMITS OF SECTARIANISM: SHI‘ISM AND AHL AL-BAYT ISLAM AMONG TURKISH MIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN GERMANY 209
21. 11 ‘FOR ‘ALI IS OUR ANCESTOR’: CHAM SAYYIDS’ SHI‘A TRAJECTORIES FROM CAMBODIA TO IRAN 227
22. EPILOGUE
23. 12 SHI‘A COSMOPOLITANISMS AND CONVERSIONS 255
24. NOTES 281
25. INDEX 310