Twelver Shi'a as a Muslim Minority in India, The

Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 7
Series editor’s preface......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 17
Transliteration, translation and notes on the text......Page 19
An introduction to the Shîca and the events surrounding the Battle of Karbala......Page 21
Part I Context......Page 23
1 From Karbala to India......Page 25
2 The Shîca of Hyderabad and their mourning gatherings......Page 53
Part II Sermons......Page 81
3 The description of a complete mourning gathering (including the text of Sermon 1)......Page 83
4 Sermons by male ‘lay’ preachers......Page 92
5 Sermons by women......Page 108
6 Sermons by religious scholars......Page 126
Part III Analysis......Page 143
7 What the sermons do and how they do it......Page 145
8 Indian Shîcî preaching as the expression of a minority Islamic religious identity......Page 172
Appendix I......Page 195
Appendix II......Page 198
Glossary......Page 200
Notes......Page 209
Bibliography......Page 221
Index of Qur’ânic passages......Page 231
General index......Page 233