The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi‘ism: Iconography and Religious Devotion in Shi‘i Islam edited by Pedram Khosronejad

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 486-491
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Newman
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Religious Devotion ◽  
Shi‘I Islam

scholarly journals The Study of Shi’i Islam

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-136
Author(s):  
Sophia Rose Arjana
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Theological Schools ◽  
Legal Traditions ◽  
Religious Devotion ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Cultural Expressions ◽  
Broad Subject ◽  
Shi‘I Islam

Shi’i Islam is a broad subject encompassing history, theology, ritual, culture,and other topics. Several current monographs provide an overview ofone or more of these subject areas. Two examples that come to mind arePedram Khosronejad’s edited volumes on Shi’i pilgrimage, ritual, and materialculture, The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi’ism: Iconographyand Religious Devotion in Shi’i Islam (2011) and Saints and Pilgrimsin Iran and Neighboring Countries (2012). While these volumes help usunderstand the pilgrimage practices, art, and other cultural expressions ofShi’ism, they are not focused on the fundamentals, such as the movement’shistory, various theological schools, legal traditions, and textual sources.The Study of Shi’i Islam: History, Theology, and Law helps to fill this voidwith its large and serious collection of essays on Imami, Ismaili, and ZaydiShi’ism.The volume is organized into eight sections: “History and Historiography,”“The Qur’an and Its Shi’i Interpretations,” “Shi’i Hadith,” “Shi’i Law,” “Authority,”“Theology,” “Rites and Rituals,” and “Philosophy and IntellectualTraditions.” Contributions include essays by some of the greatest contemporaryscholars working in Shi’ism, including Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, EtanKohlberg, Sajjad Rizvi, Maria Massi Dakake, and Wilferd Madelung.The Study of Shi’i Islam opens with a preface that includes a succinctand important discussion about the marginalization of Shi’ism in the academy.The reasons for the lack of attention, which has been somewhat remediedin recent years, include a worldview that used Western Christianity tocreate categories of Islam and the popularity of scientific Orientalism. As the ...

Book Reviews

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-122
Author(s):  
Book Reviews
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
Transit Migration

Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley by Christian Zlolniski Berkeley, CA, USA: University of California Press, 2006 ISBN 0520246438, 249 pp.The Archaeology of Xenitia: Greek Immigration and Material Culture Ed. by Kostis Kourelis Athens: Gennadius Library, 2008 ISBN 978-960-86960-6-8, 104 pp.  Transit Migration: The Missing Link between Emigration and Settlement by Aspasia Papadopoulou-Kourkoula New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 ISBN 0-230-55533-0, 177 pp.How Professors Think: Inside The Curious World of Academic Judgment, 1st Edition by Michele Lamont Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0674032668, 336 pp.

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