Shi’ism in Kashmir

A History of Sunni-Shia Rivalry and Reconciliation

Hakim Sameer Hamdani (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2024
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-4394-3 (ISBN)

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When Muslim rule in Kashmir ended in 1820, Sikh and later Hindu Dogra Rulers gained power, but the country was still largely influenced by Sunni religious orthodoxy. This book traces the impact of Sunni power on Shi'i society and how this changed during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The book identifies a distinctive Kashmiri Shi'i Islam established during this period. Hakim Sameer Hamdani argues that the Shi'i community’s religious and cultural identity was fostered through practices associated with the martyrdom of Imam Husayn and his family in Karbala, as well as other rituals of Islam, in particular, the construction and furore surrounding M'arak, the historic imambada (a Shi'i house for mourning of the Imam) of Kashmir’s Shi'i. The book examines its destruction, the ensuing Shi'i -Sunni riot, and the reasons for the Shi'i community’s internal divisions and rifts at a time when they actually saw the strong consolidation of their identity.

Hakim Sameer Hamdani is Design Director at INTACH Kashmir, Kashmir. He has published in the International Journal of Islamic Architecture amongst others and his book The Syncretic Traditions of Islamic Religious Architecture of Kashmir is forthcoming.

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Note on Conventions
Introduction
1. Not Quite Taqiyaa: Kashmiri Shi’i at the Start of the Nineteenth Century
2. Mapping Existence: In Search of Patronage and Protection
3. Shi’i Identity, Sunni Space, and Non-Muslim Rule
4. Dissensions within the Muminin: Challenging the Elite
5. Moving Toward a Unified Muslim Identity
Appendix I: Letter of ?akim ?A?im, written to Moulvi Sayyid Rajab ?Ali Shah 161
Appendix II: Groans of the Muslims of Kashmir
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	Library of Islamic South Asia
Zusatzinfo	25 bw images
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-7556-4394-1 / 0755643941
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-4394-3 / 9780755643943
Zustand	Neuware