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• Marthiya
  ...unnis|Sunnite]] persuasion. Under the Seljuqs (1038-1194), this devotional literature spread widely through storytellers. During this time, elegies (marathi) and [[Category:Shi’a Literature]]
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• Rawza-Khani
  ...continued to use material from epic, elegiac, theological, and historical literature. Along with Kashifi’s book, the celebrated [[Mohtasham Kashani]]’s (d. ...d psychological functions, this type of mourning ritual has been viewed by Shi’a as a means of achieving salvation. This belief is illustrated by the often-
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• Maqtal
  ...phs narrating the martyrdom of notable Muslim individuals and particularly Shi’a infallible [[Imam]]s. Most of such works, known as Maqtal al-Hussain, have ...tal al-Ḥosayn aw Hadith Karbala, Najaf, 1383/1963. On Turco-Persian Maqtal literature, see Calmard, 1975, pp. 220 ff.</ref> These texts contain many more stories
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• A Medieval Muslim Scholar at Work: Ibn Tawus and His Library
  ...hlberg deals, among other things, with the thinking, history and religious literature of the Twelve Shi’ahs and the Imamites , with Taqiya in Shiite theology a
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• Shi'ism (The Formation of the Classical Islamic World)
  ...hlberg deals, among other things, with the thinking, history and religious literature of the Twelve Shi’as and the Imamites , with Taqiya in Shiite theology an ...reconstruct the growth of religious and sectarian dimensions in the early Shi’a. Forth article presents a novel perspective on the beginnings of Imami Shi�
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• Wilferd Madelung
  }}'''Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung''' (1930) is a German scholar of Shi’a  who has written about 200 books and essays about [[Shiʿa|Shi'a]] and has * B.A. in Islamic History and Literature, University of Cairo, 1953
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• Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shi’ism
  ...social memory in an effort to more fully understand the classical [[Shiʿa|Shi’a]] biographies of the [[Imam|imams]].{{Infobox book ...nstrate the pervasiveness and importance of the notion of betrayal in this literature.
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• The Shi’i World: Pathways in Tradition and Modernity
  ...w notes how al-Sadiq’s shaped the incipient communal identity of the Imami Shi’a and following his demise, this community coalesced into the two major branc ...(independent legal judgment)’. He also highlights the point that among the Shi’a, there is a ‘shared discursive pluralism’ of legal opinion about key fa
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• Ashura
  ==History of the Commemoration by Shi’a== ...f> and there may be other echoes of the Siavosh myth in the Persian taʿzīa literature. It is, however, unlikely that memories of Siavosh should have influenced f
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• Isma’ili
  '''Isma’ili''' Shi’a represent the second most important Shi’ite community after the Twelver ( ...atimid period was the "golden age" of Isma'ilism when Isma'ili thought and literature attained their summit and Isma'ilis made important contributions to Islamic
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• Bihar al-Anwar
  ...cs” (i.e., the Sunnis). This is to be achieved by collecting the available literature—including texts thought to be lost—and arranging its contents by subjec The importance of the Bihar for the study of Imamite literature can hardly be exaggerated. It reflects the accumulated knowledge of a mille
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• Water
  ...bolical link to Ashura. Water and thirst are widely used in Ashura related literature, elegy, and [[Nowhe|noha]] (lamentation). In many lamentations, the thirst [[Category:Shi’a Islam]]
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• Ali Asqar ibn HussainNew
  ...f Karbala]] by an arrow shot at his throat and is commemorated annually by Shi’a community during Muharram rituals. He is the youngest martyr of the Battle .../ref> Ali Asqar’s [[martyrdom]] is celebrated at length in [[Rawza-Khani]] literature <ref>e.g., Jawhari, Tufan al-bokaʾ, Tehran, n.d., pp. 254-59</ref>; in Cer
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• Alam
  ...ard, Culte, pp. 103, 257, n. 257.</ref> In the popular Persian and Turkish literature relating to the drama of [[Karbala]] drums and banners (tabl va ʿalam) are ...r by street demonstrations. Many other expressions may be found in Persian literature and folklore.<ref>Dehkhoda and other dictionaries.<br /></ref>
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