Gebundenes Buch

Non-Shia Practices of Mu¿arram in South Asia and the Diaspora

Beyond Mourning

Herausgeber: Sohoni, Pushkar; Tschacher, Torsten

Beschreibung

This book analyses engagements with non-Shia practices of Muá ¥arram celebrations in the past and present, in South Asia and within a larger diaspora. Bringing together a variety of regional perspectives and linguistic backgrounds, the chapters discuss the importance of Muá ¥arram celebrations in terms of their respective actors.

Autor

Pushkar Sohoni is Associate Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune. His previous book is The Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate: Courtly Practice and Royal Authority in Late Medieval India (2018). Torsten Tschacher is a research-scholar at Freie Universität Berlin studying the history and discursive traditions of Muslims around the Bay of Bengal. His book Race, Religion, and the 'Indian Muslim' Predicament in Singapore was published in 2018 with Routledge, and he co-edited, with Deepra Dandekar, Islam, Sufism and Everyday Politics of Belonging in South Asia (Routledge 2016).

Produktdetails

• Routledge South Asian Religion Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9780367819040
• ISBN-10: 036781904X
• Artikelnr.: 62219742