The Shiites Ritual and Popular Piety in a Muslim Community
This book describes what Shiism means to those who actually practice it and serves as both an excellent introduction to the subject and an original work of scholarship.
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THE SHIITES Ritual and Popular Piety in a Muslim Community David Pinault
Palgrave Macmillan
© David Pinault 1992 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1992 978-0-312-07953-6
All rights reserved. For information, write: Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 First published in the United States of America in 1992 First paperback edition 1993
ISBN 978-0-312-10024-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-06693-0
ISBN 978-1-137-06693-0 (eBook)
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pinault, David. The Shiites : ritual and popular piety in a Muslim community / David Pinault. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. I. Shi' ah-lndia-Hyderabad. 2. Shi' ah. 3. Hyderabad (lndia)-Religious life. I. Title. BP192.7.14P56 1992 297' .82'095484-dc20 92-5210 CIP
To my mother and father Madeleine Lajoie Pinault George Joseph Pinault
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CONTENTS
. ix
Preface . . . Illustrations
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XV
Part I An Introduction to the Shiite Tradition in Islam 1.
Shiism: An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Essentials of Islam Common to the Shiite and . . . . . . . . . 11 Sunni Traditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. Shiite Ta'wil: The Esoteric Dimension of Quranic Scripture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.
. . . . . . 27
Variations on the Esoteric Tradition in Poetry and Theosophy: Examples from Attar, Hafez, and Suhrawardi of Aleppo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 47
5. The Patterns that Inform History: Shiite Worldviews and the Understanding of Past and Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 6. Shiism in India: Historical Background and Cultural Influences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.
. . . . . 59
Representations of Muharram in British Fiction and Memoirs from the Raj . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Part II Ritual and Popular Devotion in a Shiite Community: Muharram Liturgies of Hyderabad
8. Shiite Shrines of the Old City . . . . . . . . . . . 9.
Shiite Men's Guilds of Hyderabad: An Overview
79 83
10. Lamentation Rituals: Shiite Justifications for Matam
(Acts of Mourning and Self-mortification) . . . . .
. 99
.
. 109
11. Lamentation Rituals: Liturgical Forms of Matam
12. The Majlis Liturgy: Sermon Topics and Shiite Self-definition . . . . . . . . . . .
.115
13. The Role of Liturgy in Reinforcing Communal Identity.
. 121
14. Preparations for the Moharram Season: Rehearsal Sessions
and the Training of the Chorus in a Shiite Men's Guild.
. 125
15. Liturgy as Drama: The Seventh of Muharram and the
Bridegroom ofKarbala's Procession . . . . . . . . . .
. 131
16. Cooperation and Competition Among the Men's Guilds
. 137
17. Criticisms Directed Against the Men's Guilds . . .
. 147
18. Moharram Liturgies and Hindu-Muslim Relations in Hyderabad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Part Ill Conclusion
19. Hyderabad and the
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