The Twelver Shi’a as a Muslim Minority in India Pulpit of Tears 1st Edition by Toby Howarth 0415362342 9780415362344

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ISBN 10: 0415362342 

ISBN 13: 9780415362344

Author: Toby Howarth

One of the most important current debates within and about Islam concerns its relation with power. Can Muslims be fundamentally content without power or as a minority? This book considers the voice of an important Muslim minority through its sermons. Indian Shi’i Muslims are a minority within a minority, constituting about ten to fifteen percent of the population as a whole, but comprising of about fifteen million people. Ten sermons are presented entirely and many more are quoted in order to analyze the preaching tradition in full. This book is the first survey to present the Indian mourning gathering and explain the history of this extraordinary phenomenon.

Table of contents:

Part I Context
1 From Karbala to India: A history of Shîcî preaching
Roots of Islamic preaching
The message of Shîcî mourning gatherings up to the sixteenth century
The development of mourning gatherings in Iran and South India from the sixteenth century
Mourning gatherings in North India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
The birth of the modern sermon
Preaching at mourning gatherings in Âsaf Jâhî Hyderabad (1720–1948)
Preaching without political power: Hyderabad since India’s independence
Conclusion

2 The Shîca of Hyderabad And Their Mourning Gatherings
Hyderabad’s Shîcî community
The mourning gathering in the religious life of Hyderabadi Shîcas
Varieties of mourning gathering
The annual cycle of mourning gatherings
Sunnî perceptions of Shîcî mourning practices
The preachers
Becoming a preacher and community ‘control’ over the majlis pulpit
Conclusion

Part II Sermons
3 The Description Of A Complete Mourning Gathering (Including The Text Of Sermon 1)
The setting
The elegies
The sermon
The flagellation

4 Sermons By Male ‘lay’ Preachers
Sermon 2: ‘a son dies in his father’s arms’
Sermon 3: ‘a miraculous healing’
Sermon 4: ‘Hindus commemorate the death of Ḥusayn’
Sermon 5: ‘religion and politics’

5 Sermons By Women
Sermon 6: ‘supplication and fire-walking’
Sermon 7: ‘Imâm Ḥusayn as a child’
Sermon 8: ‘the remembrance of Imâm Hasan’

6 Sermons By Religious Scholars
Sermon 9: ‘a necklace of pearls of the praises of Imâm cAlî’
Sermon 10: ‘women’s rights’

Part III Analysis
7 What The Sermons Do And How They Do It
Defending the faith in a pluralist world
Uniting the community in praise of its heroes
Binding the community in a narrative of Suffering

8 Indian Shîcî Preaching As The Expression Of A Minority Islamic Religious Identity
The theology of the sermons
The purpose of the majlis, its sermon and the Shîcî community

Appendix I: List of sermons and preachers
Appendix II: Interviews

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