Shi'i Materiality Beyond Karbala: Religion That Matters
Shi'i Materiality Beyond Karbala: Religion That Matters
by Fouad Gehad Marei, Yafa Shanneik
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9004691332 | 425 Pages | PDF | 60 MB
by Fouad Gehad Marei, Yafa Shanneik
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9004691332 | 425 Pages | PDF | 60 MB
Examining manifestations and transformations of multi-sensorial expressions and experiences of Shi'i Islam, Shi'i Materiality beyond Karbala demonstrate how material things and less thing-like materialities make the praesentia and potentia of the Sacred tangible, how they cultivate intimate relations between human and more-than-human beings, and how they act as links and gateways to the Elsewhere and Otherworldly.