Editing Karen G. Ruffle (section)

==Publications==

*''[https://www.amazon.com/Karen-G.-Ruffle/e/B004I8FESI%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi’ism]''

===Publications on Muharram and Rituals=== 

*Writing Muharram: The Influence of [[Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī Kashifi|Mulla Husain Va‘ez Kashefi]] and Mohtasham Kashani on the Development of Shi‘i Devotionalism in the Medieval Deccan. A Thousand Laurels—Dr. Sadiq Naqvi: Studies on Medieval India with Special Reference to Deccan. Hyderabad: Osmania University, 2005. Pp. 334-345.
*[[Karbala]] in the Indo-Persian Imaginaire: The Marriage of [[Qasim b. al-Hasan|Qasim]] and Fatimah Kubra in Mir Alam’s Dah Majlis. Islam in the Indo-Iranian World during the Modern Epoch,1500-1900. Fabrizio Speziale and Denis Hermann, eds., 181-200. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Publishers, 2010.

===Papers on Imam Hussain and Battle of Karbala===

*[https://voices.uchicago.edu/mehat/conference/archive/mehat18/ Setting Fire to the World: Experiencing Hazrat Zaynab bint ‘Ali in Muhtasham Kashani’s Karbala-nameh. Middle East History and Theory Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (May 2003).]
*Take Me to [[Karbala]]: [[Zaynab|Hazrat Zaynab bint ‘Ali and]] the Shi‘i Community of Remembrance, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA (November 2003).
*The Saddest Story Ever Told: The Women of Karbala as Epic Heroines in South Asian Shi‘i Devotional Literature and Performance. Middle East Studies Association, Montréal, PQ (November 2007)
*The Role of Ladies in [[Karbala]] from Lady Fatima Az-Zahra to [[Zaynab|Lady Zaynab]]. Invited public lecture at Payam-e Aman Shiʿa Association for Imam Hussain Day, Somerset, NJ (8 December 2013).
*A Death Never-ending: Theoretical Reflections on the Ritualized Recurrence of [[Imam Hussain]]’s Becoming and Death in Shiʿism. 10th International Society for Iranian Studies Biennial Conference, Montréal, PQ (August 2014).