The Shi'i world : pathways in tradition and modernity /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Institute of Ismaili Studies
Other Authors:	Daftary, Farhad (Editor), Sajoo, Amyn B. (Editor), Jiwas, Shainool (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2015.
Series:	Muslim heritage series ; 4.
Subjects:	Shiites > History. Shiites. Shīʻah > Congresses. Shīʻah. History. Conference papers and proceedings.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction / Farhad Daftary, Amyn B. Sajoo and Shainool Jiwa
2. Remembering Muhammad / Omid Safi
3. Imam Jaʻfar al-Sadiq and the elaboration of Shiʻism / Karim Douglas Crow
Legal traditions / Andrew J. Newman
Intellectual traditions / Paul E. Walker
Governance and pluralism under the Fatimids (909-996 C.E.) / Shainool Jiwa
7. Moral authority in the Safawid state /Rula J. Abisaab
8. Devotional practices / Ali S. Asani
9. Shiʻi communities in history / Farhad Daftary
10. Remembering Fatima and Zaynab: gender in perspective / Zayn Kassam and Bridget Blomfield
Art and architecture / Jonathan M. Bloom
12. Literature / Eric Ormsby
13. Music / William Sumit
14. Shiʻism in Iranian Cinema / Nacim pak-Shiraz
15. Diasporas / Zulfiqar Hirji and Karen Ruffle
Modernity: the ethcs of identity / Amyn B. Sajoo.