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Edinburgh University Press Twelver Shi'i Self-flagellation Rites in Contemporary Syria: Mourning Sayyida Zaynab (Advances in the Study of Islam)

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This book examines contested Muharram practices, as well as the institutions and authorities that promoted or condemned them until 2011, when most Shi‘is fled Syria. For 40 years, the Syrian shrine town of Sayyida Zaynab was a place of miracles, where violence engendered healing. To experience miraculous healing, Shi‘is attended mourning gatherings, studied at seminaries, self-flagellated, and frequented spiritual healers. Supported by the political establishment, Shi‘i institutions arose to serve Iraqi refugees and Iranian pilgrims. Seminaries promoted various practices, some highly controversial. Wounded, traumatized, impoverished, and oppressed, asylum seekers from Iraq who performed flagellations sought salvation - a worldly restoration requiring saintly beneficence. In Syria, where Shi‘is were often asylum seekers from Iraq, daily concerns centred on the here and now, on survival, and on the bitterness they felt. They prayed for justice and retribution, as much as for physical and psychological healing.

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Brand: Edinburgh University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 139954828X
Category: Books > Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Islam
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 June 2025
Listed Since: 27 December 2024

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