"This volume grew from the papers presented at the 2009 conference, 'People of the Prophet's House: Art, Architecture and Shiʻism in the Islamic World,' sponsored by The Institute of Ismaili Studies in conjunction with the British Museum as part of the Museum's academic programme for its major exhibition, 'Shah ʻAbbas: The Remaking of Iran'"--Page 13. Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-269) and index.
Contents:
Part 1: Introduction. -- 1. Shiʻi art and ritual: contexts, definitions and expressions / Fahmida Suleman and Shainool Jiwa -- 2. Are there Shiʻi forms of art? / Oleg Grabar -- Part 2: Pilgrimage and patronage -- 3. The Shiʻi shrines of Iraq /James W. Allan -- 4. Glorifying the Imamate: architecture and ritual in the Shiʻi shrines of Syria / Yasser Tabbaa -- 5. Evanescent meaning: the place of Shiʻism in Fatimid mosques / Jonathan M. Bloom -- 6. A Shiʻi building boom in 14th-century Qum: the case of Bagh-i Sabz towers / Robert Hillenbrand -- 7. Pilgrims and patrons: ziyāra under the Samanids and Bavandids / Melanie Michailidis -- Part 3: Inscriptions on art, architecture and coinage -- 8. Early Qurʼans signed by the Shiʻi Imams / Sheila R. Canby -- 9. Writing about faith: epigraphic evidence for the development of Twelver Shiʻism in Iran / Sheila S. Blair -- 10. The writing on the walls: selections from the Twelver Shiʻi epigraphs of Lucknow's Hussainabad Imambara / Hussein Keshani -- 11. ʻAlī walī Allāh and other non-Qurʼanic references to the Ahl al-bayt on Islamic coinage before the Saljuq period / Luke Treadwell -- Part 4: Iconographic studies: Shiʻi contexts and beyond. -- 12. Between the past and the future: the fālnāma (book of omens) in the 16th and early 17th centuries / Masumeh Farhad --13. Exploring Ahl al-bayt imagery in Qajar Iran (1785-1925) / Maryam Ekhtiar -- 14. Shiʻism and contemporary Iranian art / Venetia Porter -- 15. Dhuʼl-faqār and the Ottomans / Zeynep Yürekli -- 16. The Hand of Fatima: in search of its origins and significance / Fahmida Suleman -- Part 5: Ritual expressions. -- 17. Lasting elegy: Shiʻi art and architecture / Peter J. Chelkowski -- 18. ʻArūze Qāsem - a theatrical event in Shiʻi female commemorative rituals / Ingvild Flaskerud -- 19. Cinema as a cultural reservoir for the Shiʻi performing art of taʻziya / Nacim Pak-Shiraz -- 20. Some historic taʻziyas of Multan / Tryna Lyons -- 21. Chirogh rawshan: Shiʻi ceremonial practised by the Ismaili communities of Xinjiang China / Amier Saidula -- 22. Building and performing Shiʻi Islam in Sufi Senegal: a photo essay / Mara A. Leichtman
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