Références bibliogr.

The other Shiites : an introduction / Silvia Naef and Farian Sabahi Shia minorities and the state. The Ottoman view of the Shiite community of Iraq in the late nineteenth century / Gökhan Çetinsaya The Anatolian Alevis : ambivalent encounter with modernity in late Ottoman and early republican Turkey / Hans-Lukas Kieser Hizbullah and the legacy of Imam Musa al-Sadr / Hussein Gharbieh The Shiites of Lebanon in the post-war era : a new identity? / Daniel Meier The politicization of the Shia community in Pakistan in the 1970s and 1980s / Mariam Abou Zahab Rituals and social practices as identity markers. The Muharram rituals and the cult of the saints among Iraqi Shiites / Yitzhak Nakash Ashura : some remarks on ritual practices in different Shiite communities (Lebanon and Syria) / Sabrina Mervin Representations and symbols in Muharram and other rituals : fragments of Shiite worlds from Bombay to Karachi / Michel Boivin Image of the self, image of the other : social organization and the role of Ashura among the Hazaras of Quetta (Pakistan) / Alessandro Monsutti Reinterpreting tradition. Shiism, sufism and sacred space in the Deccan : counter-narratives of saintly identity in the cult of Shah Nur / Nile Green The sura of the gift in the oral tradition of the Ismailis of Tajik Badakhshan / Gabrielle Van Den Berg Success and failure of a Shiite modernist : Muhammad ibn Muhammad Mahdi al-Khalisi (1890-1963) / Werner Ende The Twelver Shia online : challenges for its religious authorities / Stephan Rosiny