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Saints and Their Pilgrims in Iran and Neighbouring Countries (Hardcover, New)
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Saints and Their Pilgrims in Iran and Neighbouring Countries (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Anthropology of Persianate Societies, 1
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The importance and ramifications of saints, sainthood and
pilgrimage in contemporary Iran and neighbouring countries are
great, yet the academic conceptualizations of them and their
entailments are sorely lacking. This book places the saints and
their pilgrims in sharper focus, and offers important correctives
to all-too-common Western misunderstandings, the foremost of which
is the erroneous portrayal of Islam as primarily a body of legal
doctrine and corresponding practice, and the associated principle
that we can 'know' Islam if we 'know' Islamic law. In an effort to
challenge such a limited, and limiting, perspective, this volume
suggests that both anthropology, insofar as it can focus on
experience and practice, and history, insofar as it can encompass
more than an institutional/political 'names and dates' discourse,
can reveal something of the dynamism of the faith, as more than the
sum of its laws. The approaches demonstrated in this book on Shiite
Pilgrimage offer windows into the beliefs and lives of 'ordinary'
people, past and present, and thereby bring forth agendas akin to
those of 'subaltern studies'. Finally, the memorializing documented
in these chapters provides evidence, past and present, of
widespread desires for a more concrete, even immanent, relationship
that is direct, unmediated and, at least partly, involves forms of
intercession - even though such desires for immanence in the
Islamic world have previously been considered as limited to
devotees of the Sufi saints or the Shi'i Imams or their progeny.
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