The Shiites of Lebanon and Ottoman History

juin 16, 2021 @ 18:00 – Webinar Arabicities. Arab Presence in Turkey, Stefan Winter « The Shiites of Lebanon and Ottoman History » Moderator : Seda Altuğ (Lecturer at the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul) This presentation will revisit the author’s monograph « The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788 », based on his award-winning Chicago dissertation and published by Cambridge […]

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Living the Love of the Imams in Twelver Shi’a Islam in Iran. Objects and Materials as a Vehicle for Devotion

juin 16, 2021 @ 19:00 – Sepideh Parsapajouh (CNRS-CéSor/EHESS) Event hosted by Orient-Institut Istanbul in Cooperation with the Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes (IFEA). In Twelver Shi’ism, as in many other religions, devotion and piety are not merely conceptual and ideational nor are they directed towards a purely abstract God. Twelver Shi’a consists of a set of beliefs and practices dedicated primarily […]

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