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I knew my problems had taken a turn for the worse when I saw that the camouflage netting had been removed from the artillery that lined the highway. Gun crews crouched tensely behind each howitzer; loaders rammed home shells. And then I saw an officer raise his arm and slash the air in an unmistakable signal: fire.
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Amar Singh Chohan, Historical Study of Society and Culture in Dardistan and Ladakh (Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 1983), 109–10.
On this topic see also Martijn van Beek, “Battle of the Loudspeakers Continues,” Ladakh Studies (Aarhus, Denmark) 10 (Summer 1998), 6–7.
Sheikh Muhammad Mahdi al-Mazandarani al-Ha’iri, Ma’ali al-sibtayn fi ahwal al-Hasan wa-al-Husain (Najaf: Matba’at al-Nu’man, 1960), vol. 1, 143. The passage appears in a chapter entitled “Fi fadl al-baka’ ’alayhi” (“On the Virtue of Weeping for Him [i.e, for Husain]”).
Janet Rizvi, Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia, 2nd ed. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998), 150–51, 211.
J. Spencer Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 56–57; Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975), 258, 363.
Nicola Grist, Local Politics in the Suru Valley of Northern India (Ph.D. diss., Goldsmiths College, University of London, 1998), 125.
On the topic of Sunni-Shia rapprochement, see Rainer Brunner, Annaeherung und Distanz: Schia, Azhar, und die islamische Oekumene (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 1996), as well as the review of this book by Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen in the International Journal of Middle East Studies 31 (1999), 280–82. See also Emmanuel Sivan, “Sunni Radicalism in the Middle East and the Iranian Revolution,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 21 (1989), 1–30.
Seyyed ’Ali Khamenei, ’Ashura: bayyanat-e rehbar-e mu’azzam-e inqilab-e islami waistifta’at-e ayyat-e ’uzam piramun ’azadari-ye ’ashura (Qom: Daftar-e tablighat-e islami-ye hawzeh-ye ’ilmiyah, 1994), 22.
On the topic of IKMT-Islamiya School clashes in Kargil, see also Martijn van Beek, “Muharram Procession Banned in Kargil,” Ladakh Studies 10 (Summer 1998), 7.
On the persecution of the Hazara Shias and political rivalry between Iran and Pakistan in Afghanistan, see Peter Marsden, The Taliban: War, Religion, and the New Order in Afghanistan (London: Zed Books, 1998), 55, 135, 143–44. See also Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 196–206.
On the traditional reputation of mullahs among Iranians, see Roy Mottahedeh, The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985), 351–52.
Grist, op. cit., p. 94, notes the same phenomenon concerning the use of the title hajji in Ladakh’s Suru Valley.
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Pinault, D. (2001). The Day of the Lion: A Ladakhi Shia Ritual Determined by the Zodiacal Calendar. In: Horse of Karbala. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-04765-6_9
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