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245 10 a| Twelver Shi'i self-flagellation rites in contemporary Syria :b| mourning Sayyida Zaynab /c| Edith Szanto.;

264 1 a| Edinburgh :b| Edinburgh University Press,c| [2025];

300 a| xv, 253 pages :b| maps ;c| 24 cm.;

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490 1 a| Advances in the study of Islam;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| This book examines contested Muharram practices, as well as the institutions and authorities that promoted or condemned them until 2011, when most Shi‘is fled Syria. For 40 years, the Syrian shrine town of Sayyida Zaynab was a place of miracles, where violence engendered healing. To experience miraculous healing, Shi‘is attended mourning gatherings, studied at seminaries, self-flagellated, and frequented spiritual healers. Supported by the political establishment, Shi‘i institutions arose to serve Iraqi refugees and Iranian pilgrims. Seminaries promoted various practices, some highly controversial. Wounded, traumatized, impoverished, and oppressed, asylum seekers from Iraq who performed flagellations sought salvation - a worldly restoration requiring saintly beneficence. In Syria, where Shi‘is were often asylum seekers from Iraq, daily concerns centred on the here and now, on survival, and on the bitterness they felt. They prayed for justice and retribution, as much as for physical and psychological healing. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Syria between 2004 and 2010, Edith Szanto fills a gap in the literature on Shi‘ism in modern Syria and critiques long-entrenched arguments in Shi‘i studies.;

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Twelver Shi'i self-flagellation rites in contemporary Syria : mourning Sayyida Zaynab / Edith Szanto.

Author/creator	Szanto, Edith author.
Format	Book
Publication	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]
Description	xv, 253 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Flagellants--Syria. Shiites--Syria. Tenth of Muḥarram. Chiites--Syrie. 10 muḥarram. Flagellants--Syrie.

Series	Advances in the study of Islam Advances in the study of Islam. ^A1465058
Abstract	This book examines contested Muharram practices, as well as the institutions and authorities that promoted or condemned them until 2011, when most Shi‘is fled Syria. For 40 years, the Syrian shrine town of Sayyida Zaynab was a place of miracles, where violence engendered healing. To experience miraculous healing, Shi‘is attended mourning gatherings, studied at seminaries, self-flagellated, and frequented spiritual healers. Supported by the political establishment, Shi‘i institutions arose to serve Iraqi refugees and Iranian pilgrims. Seminaries promoted various practices, some highly controversial. Wounded, traumatized, impoverished, and oppressed, asylum seekers from Iraq who performed flagellations sought salvation - a worldly restoration requiring saintly beneficence. In Syria, where Shi‘is were often asylum seekers from Iraq, daily concerns centred on the here and now, on survival, and on the bitterness they felt. They prayed for justice and retribution, as much as for physical and psychological healing. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Syria between 2004 and 2010, Edith Szanto fills a gap in the literature on Shi‘ism in modern Syria and critiques long-entrenched arguments in Shi‘i studies.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	ebook version : 9781399548298
ISBN	139954828X
ISBN	9781399548281 (hardback)
ISBN	(PDF ebook)
ISBN	(ebook)
Standard identifier#	CIPO000233554

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