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• Joint winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2021 (UK)

Overview

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.

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Author:   Oliver Scharbrodt (Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Chester) ,  Yafa Shanneik (Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Birmingham)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474430388

ISBN 10:   1474430384
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   30 May 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

"The volume is a valuable contribution to Shi'a studies that challenges some of the preconceived notions about the Shi'a diaspora, such as an 'Iranian satellite' in non-Muslim contexts. Furthermore, it shows the resistance and indigenous nature of Shi'a groups that form their unique identity by adapting Shi'a theology to local culture. [...] Finally, the volume brilliantly captures the areas of cooperation which challenge rigid sectarian classifications and presents analytical tools to explain shared/collective subjectivities and fluidity of sectarian boundaries which are difficult to categorise as Shi'a or Sunni.--Jaffer Abbas Mirza, Centre for Academic Shi'a Studies, London ""Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies Vol 12, Number 1-2"" This edited volume provides unique empirical research on the usually under studied Shi'a minorities in different contexts, from Europe to Latin America and Cambodia. It is an important contribution to the fields of immigration, transnational and religious studies.-- ""Jocelyne Cesari, University of Birmingham and Georgetown University"""

This edited volume provides unique empirical research on the usually under studied Shi'a minorities in different contexts, from Europe to Latin America and Cambodia. It is an important contribution to the fields of immigration,　 transnational and religious studies. * Jocelyne Cesari, University of Birmingham and Georgetown University * The volume is a valuable contribution to Shi‘a studies that challenges some of the preconceived notions about the Shi‘a diaspora, such as an ‘Iranian satellite’ in non-Muslim contexts. Furthermore, it shows the resistance and indigenous nature of Shi‘a groups that form their unique identity by adapting Shi‘a theology to local culture. [...] Finally, the volume brilliantly captures the areas of cooperation which challenge rigid sectarian classifications and presents analytical tools to explain shared/collective subjectivities and fluidity of sectarian boundaries which are difficult to categorise as Shi‘a or Sunni. -- Jaffer Abbas Mirza, Centre for Academic Shi‘a Studies, London * Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies Vol 12, Number 1-2 *

Author Information

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.

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