Performing Religion: Actors, contexts, and texts

doi:10.5771/9783956503306

Performing Religion: Actors, contexts, and texts

Case studies on Islam

Series: Beiruter Texte und Studien (BTS)

Volume 122 1. Edition 2017

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doi.org/10.5771/9783956503306
ISBN print: 978-3-95650-235-4
ISBN online: 978-3-95650-330-6
Ergon, Baden-Baden Ergon, Baden-Baden

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Abstract

"Performing Religion" investigates the relationship between texts, actors, and contexts in the study of Islam. Research in Islamic Studies to date has taken texts primarily as a medium of information. This volume emphasizes the material quality of texts, both written and oral. It focuses on the sound and rhythm of their performance, on nonverbal elements, and practices of framing and embedding. "Performing Religion" also looks at the interpretation of religious practices not based on lengthy textual foundations but which nevertheless constitute an important part of believers' lives. The assembled case studies encompass contemporary as well as historic perspectives and include examples from Andalusia, Egypt, Italy, Greater Syria, Turkey, Central Asia, Yemen, Iran, and India.

Part I explores objects, actions, and notions in the context of the acquisition of blessing ("baraka"). Part II asks how believers use, alter, and publically enact texts in ritual settings and what kinds of performance are inscribed into the text. Part III analyses the negotiation of meanings, aesthetics, and identity which occurs in new and often transcultural contexts. Rather than viewing texts as a repository of ideas, the present volume accentuates their ritual functions and the aesthetic experiences they provide.

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1–8 Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis 1–8
9–10 Preface 9–10
11–23 Introduction: From Texts to Performances Ines Weinrich Ines Weinrich 11–23
24–101 Part I: Objects, Actions, and Notions in the Context of Blessing 24–101
- 24–36 Antique Phallic Symbol or Mobile Relic? Remarks on the Cult of the qubaʿ in Ḥaḍramawt Marianus Hundhammer Marianus Hundhammer 24–36
- 37–52 Shared Rituals through ziyārāt in Lebanon: A Typology of Christian and Muslim Practices Nour Farra-Haddad Nour Farra-Haddad 37–52
- 53–74 Conforming to and Breaking with Social Norms: Two Contrary Modes of baraka Gebhard Fartacek / Lorenz Nigst Gebhard Fartacek / Lorenz Nigst 53–74
- 75–101 The Quest for Sufi Transmissions as Links to the Prophet: Murtaḍā al-Zabīdī (d. 1791) and his Encyclopedic Collections of Sufi salāsil Stefan Reichmuth Stefan Reichmuth 75–101
102–199 Part II: The Staging and Performance of Texts 102–199
- 102–126 Between Poem and Ritual: The Burda by al-Būṣīrī (d. 1294-1297) Ines Weinrich Ines Weinrich 102–126
- 127–144 A “Deserted Site of Display”: Performing the Crafts’ risāla in Pre-socialist Central Asia Jeanine Elif Dağyeli Jeanine Elif Dağyeli 127–144
- 145–162 Woe, a Hundred Woes! 19th-Century Muḥarram Elegies in Iran as Performative Poetry Roxane Haag-Higuchi Roxane Haag-Higuchi 145–162
- 163–184 Preaching Performances Revisited: The Narrative Restaging of Sermons in the Travelogue of Ibn Jubayr (d. 1217) Sabine Dorpmüller Sabine Dorpmüller 163–184
- 185–199 Everyday Islamic Practice in Modern Egyptian Literature Susanne Enderwitz Susanne Enderwitz 185–199
200–244 Part III: Negotiating Meaning, Aesthetics, and Identity 200–244
- 200–218 The Open Ritual: Indeterminacy in a Modern Sufi Ceremony Jan Scholz / Max Stille Jan Scholz / Max Stille 200–218
- 219–234 Essentializing Difference: Text, Knowledge, and Ritual Performance in a Sufi Brotherhood in Italy Paola Abenante Paola Abenante 219–234
- 235–244 Burning With Love: Consumerism and Recent Trends in Islamic Music in Turkey Songül Karahasanoğlu Songül Karahasanoğlu 235–244
245–248 The Authors 245–248
249–256 Plates 249–256
257–260 Index 257–260

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