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| Series editor's preface | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Transliteration, translation and notes on the text | |
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| An introduction to the Shi'a and the events surrounding the Battle of Karbala | |
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| Context | |
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| From Karbala to India: a history of Shici preaching | |
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| Roots of Islamic preaching | |
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| The message of Shici mourning gatherings up to the sixteenth century | |
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| The development of mourning gatherings in Iran and South India from the sixteenth century | |
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| Mourning gatherings in North India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries | |
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| The birth of the modern sermon | |
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| Preaching at mourning gatherings in Asaf Jahi Hyderabad (1720-1948) | |
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| Preaching without political power: Hyderabad since India's independence | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Shi'a of Hyderabad and their mourning gatherings | |
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| Hyderabad's Shici community | |
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| The mourning gathering in the religious life of Hyderabadi Shi'as | |
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| Varieties of mourning gathering | |
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| The annual cycle of mourning gatherings | |
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| Sunni perceptions of Shi'i mourning practices | |
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| The preachers | |
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| Becoming a preacher and community 'control' over the majlis pulpit | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sermons | |
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| The description of a complete mourning gathering (including the text of Sermon 1) | |
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| The setting | |
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| The elegies | |
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| The sermon | |
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| The flagellation | |
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| Sermons by male 'lay' preachers | |
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| 'A son dies in his father's arms' | |
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| 'A miraculous healing' | |
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| 'Hindus commemorate the death of Husayn' | |
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| 'Religion and politics' | |
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| Sermons by women | |
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| 'Supplication and fire-walking' | |
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| 'Imam Husayn as a child' | |
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| 'The remembrance of Imam Hasan' | |
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| Sermons by religious scholars | |
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| 'A necklace of pearls of the praises of Imam cAli' | |
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| 'Women's rights' | |
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| Analysis | |
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| What the sermons do and how they do it | |
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| Defending the faith in a pluralist world | |
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| Uniting the community in praise of its heroes | |
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| Binding the community in a narrative of Suffering | |
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| Indian Shi'i preaching as the expression of a minority Islamic religious identity | |
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| The theology of the sermons | |
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| The purpose of the majlis, its sermon and the Shici community | |
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| List of sermons and preachers | |
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| Interviews | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Qur'anic passages | |
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| General index | |