Shi’a Minorities in the Contemporary World

Migration, Transnationalism and Multilocality

Oliver scharbrodt, Yafa Shanneik (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474430371 (ISBN)

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Offers a set of new comparative perspectives on the experiences of Shi’a Muslim minorities outside the ‘Muslim heartland’ (Middle East, North Africa, Central and South Asia) and discusses the challenges these communities face as ‘a minority within a minority'.

Global migrations flows in the 20th century have seen the emergence of Muslim diaspora and minority communities in Europe, North America and other parts of the world. While there is a growing body of research on Muslim minorities in various regional contexts, the particular experiences of Shi’a Muslim minorities across the globe has only received scant attention.
This book offers new comparative perspectives of Shi’a minorities outside of the so-called ‘Muslim heartland’ (the Middle East, North Africa, Central and South Asia). It includes contributions on Shi’a minority communities in Europe, North and South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia that emerged out of migration from the Middle East and South Asia in the 20th and 21st centuries in particular. As a ‘minority within a minority’, Shi’a Muslims face the double challenge of maintaining as Islamic as well as a particular Shi’a identity in terms of communal activities and practices, public perception and recognition.

Oliver Scharbrodt is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Chester. He is the author of Islam and the Baha’i Faith: A Comparative Study of Muhammad ‘Abduh and ‘Abdul-Baha ‘Abbas (London and New York: Routledge, 2008) and editor of the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe (Leiden: Brill). Yafa Shanneik is Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Birmingham. She researches the dynamics and trajectories of gender in Islam within the context of contemporary diasporic and transnational Muslim women’s spaces. Currently, she is working on a project which explores women’s narratives of transnational marriage practices performed by Iraqi and Syrian women who have settled in Europe or other countries in the Middle East since the 1980s. The project focuses on the historical developments and contemporary understandings and approaches of marriage practices among displaced Iraqi and Syrian Muslim women and foregrounds questions of identity, home and belonging of women constituted through local, national and transnational scales of migration experiences.

Introduction

1. ‘My Homeland is Husayn’: Transnationalism and Multilocality in Shi’a ContextsOliver Scharbrodt and Yafa Shanneik

Part I: Localising Global Shi’a Minority Spaces

2. Performing Shi’ism between Java and Qom: Education and RitualsChiara Formichi

3. Mi corazón late Husayn: Identity, Politics and Religion in a Shi’a Community in Buenos AiresMari-Sol García Somoza and Mayra Soledad Valcarcel

4. Bektashism as a Model and Metaphor for ‘Balkan Islam’Piro Rexhepi

5. Living Najaf in London: Diaspora, Identity, and the Sectarianisation of the Iraqi-Shi’a SubjectEmanuelle Degli Esposti

Part II: Transnational Shi’a Trajectories

6. Global Networks, Local Concerns: Investigating the Impact of Emerging Technologies on Shi’a Religious Leaders and ConstituenciesRobert J. Riggs

7. ‘Still We Long for Zaynab’: South Asian Shi’ites and Transnational Homelands under AttackNoor Zehra Zaidi

8. From a Marginalised Religious Community in Iran to a Government-sanctioned Public Interest Foundation in Paris – Remarks on the ‘Ostad Elahi Foundation’Roswitha Badry

Part III: ‘Alid Piety and the Fluidity of Sectarian Boundaries

9. Ideas in Motion: The Transmission of Shi’a Knowledge in Sri LankaHarun Rasiah

10. Limits of Sectarianism: Shi’ism and ahl al-bayt Islam among Turkish Migrant Communities in GermanyBenjamin Weineck

11. ‘For ‘Ali is Our Ancestor’: Cham Sayyids’ Shi’a Trajectories from Cambodia to Iran Emiko Stock

Epilogue

12. Shi’a Cosmopolitanisms and ConversionsMara A. Leichtman

Erscheinungsdatum	04.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Alternative Histories: Narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	652 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-13	9781474430371 / 9781474430371
Zustand	Neuware