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The first thing that struck me about Muharram in Chicago was how familiar much of it seemed.
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Jonathan D. Spence, The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci (New York: Viking Penguin, 1984), 246–47.
William Montgomery Watt, trans., The Faith and Practice of Al-Ghazali (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1994). See especially Ghazali’s discussion of “The Danger of ‘Authoritative Instruction,’” 45–56.
Linda S. Walbridge, in her study of Shia immigrants in the United States, Without Forgetting the Imam: Lebanese Shi’ism in an American Community (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1997), discusses anti-Muslim prejudice in America. She compares the experience of immigrant Muslims in this country to that of immigrant Catholics over the last century. Her conclusion (p. 209): “Anti-Catholic sentiment has not disappeared from America, but it is at a low enough level that it certainly does not hinder Catholics from participating in all spheres of activity. There is no reason to think that Muslims in general, and Shi’a in particular, will experience anything much different.”
Ronald Grimes, Ritual Criticism: Case Studies in Its Practice, Essays on Its Theory (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990), 202–03.
Abbas Qummi, Mafatih al-jinan (Beirut: Dar ihya’ al-turath al-’arabi, 1970), 535–38.
Ali Shari’ati, “Thar,” in Mehdi Abedi and Gary Legenhausen, eds., Jihad and Shahadat: Struggle and Martyrdom in Islam (Houston, TX: The Institute for Research and Islamic Studies, 1986), 260.
Ibid., 256–58.
Muhammad Husain al-Faqih, Li-madha ana shi’i (Beirut: al-Ghadir lil-dirasat waal-nashr, 1995), 12–13, 97.
Ibid., 99.
Clifford Geertz, “Religion as a Cultural System,” in The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: Basic Books, 1973), 104.
Nostra Aetate: Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1965), 6.
Msgr. Joseph F. Stedman, ed., My Sunday Missal (New York: Confraternity of the Precious Blood, 1961), 192.
Ibid., 211.
The Catholic Hierarchy of the Netherlands, A New Catechism: Catholic Faith for Adults (New York: Crossroad Publishing, 1984), 281–83.
The verses appear in chapter 5, verse 48 of the Qur’an. On this topic see also Ernest Hamilton, “The Olympics of ‘Good Works’: Exploitation of a Qur’anic Metaphor,” The Muslim World 81 (1991), 72–81.
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Pinault, D. (2001). Shia Encounters in the United States: Notes on Teaching the Shia Tradition in American Classrooms. In: Horse of Karbala. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-04765-6_10
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