The Twelver Shi'a as a Muslim Minority in India: Pulpit of Tears (Routledge Persian and Shi'a Studies)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Series editor’s preface......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Transliteration, translation and notes on the text......Page 20
An introduction to the Shîca and the events surrounding the Battle of Karbala......Page 22
Part I Context......Page 24
1 From Karbala to India......Page 26
2 The Shîca of Hyderabad and their mourning gatherings......Page 54
Part II Sermons......Page 82
3 The description of a complete mourning gathering (including the text of Sermon 1)......Page 84
4 Sermons by male ‘lay’ preachers......Page 93
5 Sermons by women......Page 109
6 Sermons by religious scholars......Page 127
Part III Analysis......Page 144
7 What the sermons do and how they do it......Page 146
8 Indian Shîcî preaching as the expression of a minority Islamic religious identity......Page 173
Appendix I......Page 196
Appendix II......Page 199
Glossary......Page 201
Notes......Page 210
Bibliography......Page 222
Index of Qur’ânic passages......Page 232
General index......Page 234