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Saints and Their Pilgrims in Iran and Neighbouring Countries - The Anthropology of Persianate Societies
Pedram Khosronejad
Saints and Their Pilgrims in Iran and Neighbouring Countries - The Anthropology of Persianate Societies
Pedram Khosronejad
Publisher Marketing: Challenges the limited Western view of Islam as primarily a body of legal doctrine and corresponding practice, this volume suggests that both anthropology, insofar as it can focus on experience and practice, and history, insofar as it can encompass more than an institutional/political 'names and dates' discourse, can reveal something of the dynamism of the faith, as more than the sum of its laws. The approaches demonstrated in this book on Shiite Pilgrimage offer windows into the beliefs and lives of 'ordinary' people, past and present, and thereby bring forth agendas akin to those of 'subaltern studies'. Finally, the memorializing documented in these chapters provides evidence, past and present, of widespread desires for a more concrete, even immanent, relationship that is direct, unmediated and, at least partly, involves forms of intercession - even though such desires for immanence in the Islamic world have previously been considered as limited to devotees of the Sufi saints or the Shi'i Imams or their progeny.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | June 30, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9781907774140 |
Publishers | Sean Kingston Publishing |
Genre | Interdisciplinary Studies > Islamic Studies - Religious Orientation > Islamic |
Pages | 184 |
Dimensions | 142 × 221 × 16 mm · 362 g |
Language | English |
Editor | Khosronejad, Pedram |
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