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" Making spaces sacred: The Sayyeda Zaynab and Bibi Pak Daman shrines and the construction of modern Shi'a identity "
Noor Zehra Zaidi
Kashani-Sabet, Firoozeh
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803501
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TL48292
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1701284907; 3709596
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Md Yusof, Noryani
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Making spaces sacred: The Sayyeda Zaynab and Bibi Pak Daman shrines and the construction of modern Shi'a identity\ Noor Zehra ZaidiKashani-Sabet, Firoozeh
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University of Pennsylvania
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2015
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Ph.D.
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History
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2015
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343
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Committee members: Peiss, Kathy; Troutt Powell, Eve
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-85227-1
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This dissertation is a study of the Bibi Pak Daman shrine in Lahore, Pakistan and the Sayyeda Zaynab shrine in Damascus, Syria and of how these shrines were made sacred in the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Said to house the graves of Ruqayyah and Zaynab, two daughters of ‘Ali ibn Abu Talib, the first Shi’a Imam, the two shrines would grow from local sites of devotion to critical pilgrimage sites in the 20<sup>th</sup> century. The dissertation will first trace hagiographies related to Zaynab and Ruqayyah and how these narratives capitalized on transnational collective memories of Karbala to reinterpret their significance to local contexts. These saints and their shrines were also increasingly interwoven into Syrian and Pakistani narratives of national exceptionalism. Secondly, these shrines emerged as important national spaces and sites onto which competing claims of authentic authority and ideology were played out. For shrine authorities, religious scholars and students, pilgrims, merchants, and activists, the Sayyeda Zaynab and Bibi Pak Daman shrines provide a window into the distinct ways that sectarianism was produced and the range of practices that constituted ‘being Shi’a.’
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Middle Eastern history; World History; History
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Social sciences;Islam;Nationalism;Saints;Sectarianism;Shi'ism;Shrines
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Kashani-Sabet, Firoozeh
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HistoryUniversity of Pennsylvania
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